Explore the amazing features of Adobe's Livecycle Designer Forms application with this two day introduction course with Certitec. Discover the benefits of generating forms within a true form building environment and even distribute, collect and examine form results.

Special attention given to integration with Adobe Acrobat and the Acrobat Forms capabilities and even automatic form field recognition, security and special enablement of PDFs for use with the free Adobe Reader.

Introduction to Acrobat 8 Professional features

• Creating a form within Acrobat
• Automatic form field recognition
• Enablement of PDF with forms intelligence for Adobe Reader
• Security options

Introduction to AdobeLivecycle Designer

• Exploring templates
• Conversion of existing PDF into Livecycle
• Conversion of Word files into Livecycle

User interface and workspace

• User workspace and options
• Customising panels and formatting objects
• Master pages tab
• XML tab
• Preview (render) PDF tab

Form basics

• Grids, Rulers, Guides and Object boundaries
• Guidelines definitions
• Snap to grid and display options
• Adding and removing pages
• Changing form paper size
• Saving a form as a Designer template
• Template Manager
• Keyboard Basics
• Customise menu appearances

Library objects

• Favourites
• Standard
• Custom
• Barcodes
• Adding content from library
• Adding content to a library
• Custom shared library location

Formatting objects

• Text formatting
• Object formatting
• Alignment
• Distribute
• Multiply
• Group and un-group
• Stacking order
• Lock and unlocking objects

Checking content

• Rending form content
• Examining rendering errors
• Spell checking

Exploring form buttons

• Dropping form buttons into layout
• Configuration options
• Building drop downs
• Building list boxes
• Building radio buttons
• Adding reset, print and submit buttons
• Adding a barcode
• Accessibility options

Distribution workflow

• Preparing a form for distribution
• Publishing via web
• Sending out via email
• Collecting data via Acrobat PDF Packages
• Export to .csv
• Options for javascript submission

An understanding of electronic forms is an advantage although not essential.

This course is intended for all people creating PDF forms with the bundled Adobe Livecycle Designer (or ES versions) which come with Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional and 3D.

By the end of the course you will know how to design work flows with forms ensuring you capture the required information and re-distribute it to the people who need it most.

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