I want to scream. Help - Livecycle Adobe

Just clarifying...

Adobe discontinued LiveCycle Designer and rolled it into their Adobe Experience Manager group of cloud-based programs. You can no longer download a free trial or any other version of LCD.

However, if you have a copy of your installation files for LCD, you should still be able to install and use it on your computer. See if you can locate a former CD or installation file for Enterprise Suite 4 or other later version of LCD.

When you upgraded to Adobe Acrobat Pro, I don't believe it should have touched your installed version of LCD. They are separate programs. But Adobe has very few details on their website about what happened to LCD and provides no solution for those who must edit existing LCD formsl.

If you need to edit a form that was created in LCD, you'll need to get LCD working again because LCD forms use a type of programming called XFA while Acrobat Pro uses AcroForms. The forms are not interchangeable.

This workaround might work for some of your forms:

As ty67​ suggested above, start rebuilding your forms in Acrobat Pro. You'll be starting each form from scratch since you can't open or import the old LCD form into Acrobat Pro.

At this time, our recommended workflow for PDF forms is to use Adobe InDesign for the form's layout and basic construction of the form fields, and then open the exported PDF in Acrobat Pro and use its form tools to tweak the form, add any scripts or programming, and control accessibility (if that's required). We have classes in this at  Sec. 508 Classes at PubCom.com

Some links that might be helpful for you:

• Converting XFA form to AcroForm is at Edit a PDF created in LiveCycle Designer . Scroll down close to the end of the thread and read entry #31 by MLU on October 2, 2018.
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35008763/convert-livecycle-dynamic-fillable-pdf-to-static-fillable-pdf-not-to-flatte…

Best of luck to you.

You understand incorrectly. If you want to create or edit LCD forms you'll need to purchase it separately. It's a part of Adobe Experience Manager now.

I would recommend not bothering, though. Use Acrobat to create new forms and if you have existing LCD forms starting converting them.

Acrobat Pro DC can create forms.