I work at a University and need to create a form with lines for students and professors to fill in, edit, and read with Adobe software. A couple of ?s. 1) Is there a way to convert a Lotus 1-2-3 form to a PDF and still make it writable?; 2) If not easily for question 1 then would I create the form in LiveCycle Design?; and 3) If the form is in Live Cycle how to enable the form to allow me to fill in information above the field line I created? For example, I have created a line, underneath it says Name (Last, First, MI) I want the student to be able to write her name on that line and if it needs to be edited the professor can access the form and change necessary information. Please help. I have read your tutorials and I'm still a bit lost about the steps involved to make a form writable and readable for all.
Thanks a bunch!
Forms > Add or Edit Fields...This can work for PDF forms that have no form fields. The feature will check the form and take its best guess at what it thinks should be fields and automatically draws those fields. All you have to do is add any fields that got missed and tweak any of the fields that were generated automatically. So if you can get a PDF generated from the Lotus 1-2-3 form them you could try this.
I don't know anything about Lotus 1-2-3.
I really like LiveCycle Designer but I never import a PDF form to use as a base to draw the fields. It is way too messy and involves a lot of clean up I think. Since I like neat and tidy forms I always produce my forms in LiveCycle Designer from scratch. It is possible to bring a Word file into LiveCycle Designer but I have not done much with that.
StevenD