Older PDF file cannot be edited now in Acrobat DC - says LiveCycle Designer required

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March 23, 2018
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I have an older form that I created in Adobe Acrobat previously. It now will NOT let me edit it and insists I need Adobe LiveCycle Designer to edit it. It is a very basic simple form with some drop downs in it. I just want to change the heading. Not be able to do so seems ridiculous since I've done it before with Acrobat and it was created in Acrobat. I have the full Adobe Creative Cloud for Teams license.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Correct answer try67

You must be mistaken. If you edited this form in the past it was with LCD. It can't be edited in Acrobat, because it was not created in it.

And you have another problem because LCD is no longer bundled with Acrobat, but sold separately now. If it's a simple form I would recommend re-creating it as an Acrobat form. It will be much more usable and will solve this issue you're having.

try67

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You must be mistaken. If you edited this form in the past it was with LCD. It can't be edited in Acrobat, because it was not created in it.

And you have another problem because LCD is no longer bundled with Acrobat, but sold separately now. If it's a simple form I would recommend re-creating it as an Acrobat form. It will be much more usable and will solve this issue you're having.

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atdehartAuthor

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It is a relatively simple form so if I have to recreate it then I'll do so but what a waste of time to simply change one word on the form. I created the form and have only ever owned Adobe Acrobat Pro. Perhaps since Designer was included previously the edit placed me in it when editing it from Acrobat Pro. It is an old form that I created years ago.

Thanks for the help.

try67

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If you could share it with us (via Dropbox, Google Drive, Adobe Cloud, etc.) we could give you a definite answer, but I'm willing to bet that at some point it was converted to an LCD form.

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