Tutorial article on designing interactive PDF forms

I recently contributed a tutorial article on designing interactive PDF forms using Adobe Acrobat/LiveCycle Designer to the IEEE Professional Communication Society Newsletter. This article is my first international #TechComm publication and I’m pretty excited about it!

Read the article at this link.

As always, your feedback is welcome.

Many thanks for your encouragement, Deborah.

The LiveCycle Designer I use in this article is, in fact, bundled with Acrobat Professional. So if you have Acrobat Professional 9, that should be enough to create the form using the approach I suggested. Acrobat offers three ways of creating PDF forms: see this article from Acrobat Help .

However, I like the flexibility that LiveCycle Designer provides when I’m designing forms. I used basic JavaScripting to build interactivity into the form, and Designer makes it a breeze to do so.

Use Designer ES when you want to extend basic form capabilities in Acrobat. For example, a Designer ES form can include Image Object fields so that you can easily add graphics to a form. Consider using Designer ES for these tasks:

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