Edit a PDF created in LiveCycle Designer

Peeps! I have solved this: go to Organise pages>Extract> choose all pages, Extract all.  Open the Prepare Form menu and voila! all the fields will be there and ready to use AND you can create new fields. Just remember to save your new file.

I was trying to add the date to a W9 form and got this error. My workaround was to print the file as a pdf and then edit that pdf. I didn't expect it to work but it did, no issues (except that the form fields are no longer there - just the text I entered). 

I recently had the same issue.  I had a form that was created using LiveCycle that I could not edit, since we no longer had access to the software. I found I could easily covert and remove the fields but the form has over 100 fields so recreating would be a challenge.  I found this suggestion on another thread and it actually worked.  Note: you will need access to a MAC, luckily we had one available. 

Open the form with Apple - Preview

Select the option to duplicate the file

Save the file.

I was then able to open the form and edit the fields.  I am using Acrobat Pro XI

If it's actually AEM forms it may be that someone in your enterprise has AEM and you inherit an end user license for Designer.

First off, before anyone gets hot and bothered. I'm not doing this so I can electronically submit government forms.  I'm doing this so my app can build paper forms with pre-filled data.

Here's how you can get around the dumb restrictions for the IRS forms. Open the original PDF, save as copy. This removes usage rights.  open the new pdf. Print the pdf to the Microsoft XPS Writer. Use the Open XPS file format.  My adobe acrobat install gives me right-click context menu options.  I right-clicked the xps file and told it to convert to PDF.  Viola!  You loose the form fields, but you can just make new ones if you need them.

Try this:

1. Open the PDF in Acrobat

2. Select "File > Save As..."

3. Format: "Encapsulated PostScript"

4. Select "Save"

5. Open the .eps file using Acrobat

6. Select "Tools" in Acrobat

7. Select "Edit PDF"

8. Edit the document as needed.

Hope that helps someone.

There is some evidence that LiveCycle has been subsumed into and replaced by Adobe Experience Manager. There is some evidence that Adobe don't expect you to deliver PDF forms any more, but instead use an enterprise tool that dynamically converts them to HTML forms on the fly. "Some evidence" is the best I can give, because (in this area) Adobe has abandoned technical information in favour of glossy marketing material completely. This is probably the future of software and services: sell a brand and a feel, not specifications and features.

The source would basically be learning how to create PDF forms with Acrobat, and creating a form that looks and works the same by examination of the LiveCycle Designer file. Unless you invest in Designer you won't be able to examine the internal logic, so you will have to recreate from scratch. There are no tools or resources for converting.

Designer forms are basically dead, but a long time dying. I would advise anyone against getting it to use for new forms. Whether it's cost effective to use for old forms is another matter. Indeed, whether it's worth creating PDF forms at all is open to debate: HTML forms are so much more portable !

I've looked at the page. You need to know that LiveCycle is a large suite of different products, of which LiveCycle Designer is just one. What point on the page about support did you want to draw our attention to?

The piece of information missing there is that LCD used to be bundled for free with Acrobat Pro, but not any more. You now need to purchase it separately.