It is a pdf form with multiple text fields, check boxes and two drop down "Date" fields. I developed it years ago in Live Cycle and now it needs to be edited. It tried editing in Acrobat but it does not work.
If attempts to edit in Acrobat failed, I don't think there is any other application that can open and edit the existing file. You'll have to rebuild the form anew.
I am beginning to figure that out. So thank you and everyone else for their feedback. And the fact that Adobe Live Cycle no longer exists...it is back to the drawing board....literally.
The last time I checked, Livecycle Designer still existed, in the form of AEM Forms Designer. However, it's not available separately, and you'd be an enterprise-scale customer shelling out, I dunno, tens of thousands of dollars? to license AEM. So it's not available to us as designers at all.
At its simplest, Adobe Acrobat creates useful and easy fillable forms, and has rudimentary tracking tools for small volumes. For the web there are all kinds of options wrapped around a number of different tools. What kind of fillable forms are you looking to create, and what do you want to do with them?
As a former Live Cycle trainer and forms developer, today we use Adobe InDesign to design, layout, and add form fields. Exporting to an accessible PDF "AcroForm" is nearly complete. Throughout the year, we hold classes for this.
Scripts can be added to the PDF to extend the form's capabilities, and there are a couple of plug-ins to InDesign that are helpful, too.
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It is a form that is posted on our network that departments can download. It is used to order printing for our in-plant print shop. They fill it out and click on a "Submit by Email" button at the bottom. It is designed in such a way that if all the "required" information is not filled out, a red box appears around the field that is missing. The file comes to me as a .xml file and I import it into the fillable form, assign it a number and send a copy back to the ordering department. I can then save the form to our computer as a pdf for tracking purposes.
All these things can be done with Acrobat Pro, sounds like. You'd need to develop the relevant Javascript bits. You can still export xml of the form submission data in Acrobat, and I don't doubt that you can cause an Acrobat button to submit that .xml (or .fdf, maybe?) by email. So it's all re-doable, but you'd be starting from scratch.
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