Adobe LiveCycle Designer

Note: Adobe LiveCycle Designer is now superseded by Adobe Experience Manager forms (AEM forms), which offers the same features and much more. For more information, press the 'Download' button.

Adobe LiveCycle Designer is part of Adobe's authoring tools family, providing you with a professional form designing software solution with support for XML data and schema bindings. It bundles a rich feature set with tools that can work together in order to create interactive and dynamic forms.

The package comes with a consistent set of predefined templates that offer you a starting point in creating your own layout. From simple order forms to conference registrations, customer satisfaction surveys, employment applications, you have it all within reach.

The rich library includes a wide array of objects that can be inserted into your document, including buttons, circles, specialized fields (date / time, signatures, Flash, decimal data, passwords, barcodes), list boxes, drop-down lists, images, check boxes, content areas, submission buttons and the list does not end here. The object editor helps you modify the appearance and the properties of an item to match your vision.

The application features a powerful spell checking engine and customizable dictionaries that aim to reduce the error number to a minimum. Moreover, the formatting and layout adjustment options assist you in arranging the elements within a page and giving the output a compact look.

Adobe LiveCycle Designer features scripting (FormCalc and JavaScript) tools for more complex designs, as well as advanced data binding capabilities. It automatically generates the XML source, while the preview function enables you to take a peak at the final product prior to deployment. The output form templates can be printed directly from the application, saved as PDF documents or exported to HTML5.

The working environment is intuitive enough to help beginners and experienced users to generate form and document templates without requiring advanced computer knowledge.

On an ending note, Adobe LiveCycle Designer comes with advanced XML data handling tools, allowing the creation of professional-looking XML forms, without requiring high experience from the user's part.