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LiveCycle Designer vs Acrobat Pro?

eric68
Registered: Jun 21 2010
Posts: 5
Answered

Hi everybody,

I'm using LiveCycle Designer ES in order to prepare some interactive forms. But i was wondering what were exactly the differences between this product and Acrobat Pro, for the PDF creation? I have looking for this information on Adobe's website, but i don't really see exactly a comparison between those 2 softs.
Do you know a document (or perhaps a website) where we have the advantages / disadvantages, the possibilities for each product, what we can't do with Acrobat but only with Designer?

Thanks a lot for your help

try67
Expert
Registered: Oct 30 2008
Posts: 2398
Adobe's blurb:
[url]http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Acrobat/8.0/Professional/help.php?content=WSAB9BF8C6-5263-4bbf-B560-A6DBCB1D0ADB.php[/url]
Tutorial by Ted Padova:
[url]http://www.planetpdf.com/enterprise/article.asp?ContentID=Adobe_Live_Cycle_Designer_and_Acrobat_PDF_Forms_Under_the_Hood&gid=7184[/url]One important difference is that LC forms can be dynamic (ie you can generate new pages, new rows in tables, etc.), while Acrobat forms are not.

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eric68
Registered: Jun 21 2010
Posts: 5
Thanks for your answer Try67! The tutorial by Ted Padova bring me a lot of answers.