March 2008

eSeminar, discussions explore LiveCycle Designer forms

If you use Adobe’s LiveCycle Designer, the Windows-only forms tool that comes with Acrobat 8 Professional, you’ll want to log in to our free, one-hour eSeminar on March 12 (10 a.m. PDT) titled “Creating Interactive Forms with LiveCycle Designer.” Jim Healy of FormRouter, Inc. will discuss and demonstrate how to create advanced forms with Designer.

This interactive session will cover:

Creating or modifying form designs using the Object Library and Layout Editor
Adding custom graphics, logos and text
Adding predefined custom objects
Adding dates, dropdowns, list boxes, check boxes
Adding tables with calculations
Adding barcodes
Using digital signatures
Customizing and using templates and fragments
Using password protection
Creating dynamic fields and flowable layouts
Building in compatability

We’ve also organized a number of tutorials and videos related to our topic of the month.

In the forums, another pair of experts—J.P. Terry, author of “Creating Dynamic Forms with Adobe LiveCycle Designer,” and Stephen Cameron, a computer scientist at Adobe--will respond to related user questions between March 12-31.

Register soon for our upcoming eSeminar, and you’ll also be entered for a chance to win a Fujitsu ScanSnap S510M Instant PDF Sheet-Fed Scanner.

Best Regards
~ Kurt, Editor, AcrobatUsers.com

April eSeminar
For those who like to plan ahead, our April eSeminar titled “Extending LiveCycle Forms with Javascript” will build on this month’s feature topic (detailed at the top of this issue). It will also be recorded and archived for on-demand viewing.

Inserting pages into a PDF with Acrobat JavaScript
In his latest JavaScript Corner article, Thom Parker explains how to use Acrobat JavaScript to automate the insertion of pages from one PDF file into another, a common document-preparation task.

Create a license agreement to control viewing of PDF files
Ted Padova explains how to create a license agreement that requires a user to agree to specified terms before they can view the content in a PDF file.

Acrobat 3D contest winners named
The prize winners in our recent contest featuring Adobe Acrobat 3D have been selected and named. Selected entries will be posted to the 3D PDF Gallery for review and promotion. Details of our next contest—based on forms and LiveCycle templates--will be announced soon.

February eSeminar archived for on-demand viewing
If you missed the February eSeminar on “Creating PDF Packages” by Tim Huff, the archived version is available for on-demand viewing.

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