Dynamic XFA forms and Acrobat Professional

[grefghyzehgeh]

Hi,

I have the following statement from our software vendor and want to check whether it's correct: "You cannot create/edit dynamic XFA forms using Adobe Acrobat. Creating dynamic XFA forms requires Adobe LiveCycle Forms Designer that shipped with Acrobat 7, 8, 9 and X Professional; and, is not included with Acrobat XI Professional. You can populate forms using Acrobat Professional but these are static forms."

Is this correct? Between the change in the way LiveCycle designer has been distributed (packaged with Acrobat Pro then separately) and Acrobat Pro vs Adobe FormsCentral, it's not easy to see what is needed to do what now with Acrobat Pro XI.

Thanks!

R.

[Bernd Alheit]

This is correct.

[try67 · Accepted solution]

Yes, this description is correct. It's also important to understand that there's no relation between LCD and FormsCentral. The two things are quite different.

FC was a web-based service for designing forms, distributing them and then collecting the results. Since it has been discontinued what remains of it is its desktop application that can be used to design (simple) PDF forms from scratch. The resulting file is a standard Acrobat PDF form, not an LCD form.

[grefghyzehgeh]

Many thanks both!