New features in Designer

A new English India Rupee option is now available on the Form Local list in the Form Properties dialog box (Defaults tab), to support the new Rupee currency symbol.

New keyboard shortcuts are now available for controlling palettes.

See Working with the Keyboard.

The Object Library includes a new Flash Field object, which you can use in interactive forms to deliver rich media content like embedded videos and data displayed in charts.

See Using flash fields.

You can now apply W3C XML encryption to form content. The encryption options you can select include specifying the form content to encrypt, the encryption algorithm to use, the public encryption certificates to encrypt for, as well as the key usage criteria to use when filtering for public encryption certificates.

See Using XML encryption.

You can now extend the funtionality of Designer using JavaScript files and running them from the new Macros menu. For example, you could run a macros to rename a field or subform and update all the script references, or to find all scripts that consist entirely of comments.

See Macros.

You can now create and manage style sheets and styles to provide consistent formatting in all of your forms. You can also specify default fonts for captions and values in new and existing forms.

See Styles.

The Paragraph palette includes options for adding, formatting, and aligning bulleted and numbered lists in text.

See Paragraph properties in the Paragraph palette.

In addition to top-to-bottom and Western, you can now specify right-to-left for the flow direction of objects in a subform that flows content.