Is there an alternative to Adobe Live Cycle for developing fillable forms?

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July 6, 2023
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Randy Hagan

Community Expert

At its simplest, Adobe Acrobat creates useful and easy fillable forms, and has rudimentary tracking tools for small volumes. For the web there are all kinds of options wrapped around a number of different tools. What kind of fillable forms are you looking to create, and what do you want to do with them?

Randy

Randy Hagan

Community Expert

Seeing your response above, is it simple enough to just recreate the form in Acrobat?

Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com

Legend

As a former Live Cycle trainer and forms developer, today we use Adobe InDesign to design, layout, and add form fields. Exporting to an accessible PDF "AcroForm" is nearly complete. Throughout the year, we hold classes for this.

Scripts can be added to the PDF to extend the form's capabilities, and there are a couple of plug-ins to InDesign that are helpful, too.

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BobLevine

Community Expert

Depends on how complicated you want them.

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mptc58Author

Participating Frequently

It is a pdf form with multiple text fields, check boxes and two drop down "Date" fields. I developed it years ago in Live Cycle and now it needs to be edited. It tried editing in Acrobat but it does not work.

John Mensinger

Community Expert

If attempts to edit in Acrobat failed, I don't think there is any other application that can open and edit the existing file. You'll have to rebuild the form anew.

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