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jcalderwood
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January 13, 2019
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Cannot edit form created in Life Cycle designer

  • January 13, 2019
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I'm trying to edit a form created in LCD, so tried to install LCD from Adobe. Adobe says LCD is no longer a standalone product, but has been folded into Acrobat Pro DC. I installed Acrobat Pro DC, tried to edit the form and it says it can only be edited in LCD. how can I get around this?

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George_Johnson
Inspiring
January 13, 2019

It certainly has not been integrated into Acrobat DC. It was included with Acrobat Pro 8, 9, and 10, but not 11 or any version of DC.

Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com
Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com
Legend
January 13, 2019

LiveCycle Designer has been discontinued by Adobe, and forms developed with LiveCycle Designer can't be edited in Acrobat Pro because they use a different coding technology than regular Acrobat.

Adobe is encouraging LiveCycle clients to move their forms to their online cloud service, Adobe Experience Manager Forms.

You have few options for editing this form: choose whichever is least onerous to you!

  • Find a copy of Acrobat 9 or X which shipped with a standalone version of LiveCycle Designer. If you're lucky, you'll be able to open the form in it and edit it.
  • Move the form to Adobe AEM Forms service.
  • Open the form in Acrobat Pro and save it as an MS Word document. You'll loose the forms and any scripts that were in it, but you'll have the visible skeleton. Export it to PDF and rebuild to form fields in Acrobat Pro.

Here's a recent post on the forum about this problem: LiveCycle

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