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KS1311
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August 9, 2019
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Is Interactive pdf technology deprecated after 2014? How to develop interactive pdfs since LiveCycle Designer is no longer available?

  • August 9, 2019
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I was using Adobe Livecycle Designer to create interactive pdfs with fields.
How are interactive pdfs being created now?

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MichaelKazlow
MichaelKazlow
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August 9, 2019

FWIW Adobe is pushing https://www.adobe.com/marketing-cloud/experience-manager/forms-document-management.html as its replacement for LiveCycle Forms. Personally, I have kept with Acroforms, for folks with limited budgets Acroforms can do what I need.

try67
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try67Community Expert
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August 9, 2019

Using Acrobat, which was also used before. LCD forms have always existed alongside Acrobat forms, they did not replace them or were replaced by them (well, now they are, because LCD is pretty much dead).

    K
    KS1311Author
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    August 9, 2019

    Adobe Acrobat doesn't provide the developer/designer like interface as we get in livecycle designer.
    I was creating highly customized interactive pdf like:
    1. Cascading drop downs
    2. Auto generating fields
    3. Show hide pages
    4. Calculation boxes
    5. validation messages

    6. Color combination on Yes/No radio button etc etc....

    I don't see that type of interface in Acrobat and also don't think I can create same functionality in Adobe Acrobat..
    Again my question is which software is being used now a days for developing interactive pdfs

    or

    Parallel technology to create these thing

    try67
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    try67Community Expert
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    August 9, 2019

    You're wrong. Almost all of these things are available in AcroForms as a built-in feature or can be added using scripts.

    The main differences between the two technologies that I'm aware of are:

    - Ability to connect to an external database.

    - Ability to dynamically resize text fields based on their content.

    - Ability to dynamically reflow the content of pages.

    All of these were available in (dynamic) LCD forms, but are not available in AcroForms, but beside that AcroForms can do pretty much everything that LCD forms could do, and sometimes more (and much more easily, in my opinion).

    There are plenty of other technologies available for interactive forms (HTML is probably the most common), but PDF forms are almost always created using Acrobat, as I've said before.

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