Welcome New Acrobat Form Creators
Adobe President and COO Shantanu Narayen points out that Acrobat is seeing most of its growth coming from new users, not upgrades. If you are one of those, welcome to the Acrobat User Community.
PDF can be a simple representation of the printed page, or it can be a very dynamic, changing form. Creating forms is one of the most challenging tasks in the PDF world. If you are new to forms (and I see quite a few postings to the forums that suggest that), then I have some suggestions for you.
Before you draw your first form field, take a look at the articles on form design here at AUC.
For example:
Getting Started with Acrobat Forms
Adobe LiveCycle Designer or Acrobat Forms?
Barcoded Forms in Adobe Acrobat
Digital Signatures and Adobe PDF
FormRouter’s Reader Extensions service: Extra features for fair price
If you are using the free LiveCycle Designer that ships with Acrobat Pro to create forms, I suggest you post technical questions to the Livecycle Designer forum. We do our best to answer questions here, but Adobe engineers answer questions over there.
We all started out as new PDF form designers, so don’t be afraid to speak up and ask a question. But because many of us have been there before, you will find many of your questions already answered in the articles.
