Note: Effective March 10, 2012, Adobe is deprecating the Guides
capabilities of Adobe® LiveCycle® ES. The Guides functionality is available
for upgrade purposes only and will be removed from the product after
two major releases.
Designer
is a point-and-click graphical form design tool that simplifies
the creation of forms. Form recipients can fill a form online, submit the
data, and print it, or print and fill the form by hand. You can
design a form, define its logic, and modify it to match paper counterparts
or to meet strict legislative requirements. Form developers can
use Designer to create applications that generate dynamic, data-driven
documents and produce customized business documents for print, web,
or archival. Using form designs, form developers can create Guides
(deprecated), interactive data capture applications by leading users
through a series of visually appealing and streamlined panels, improving
usability and reducing data entry errors.
You can also build and maintain data capture solutions that read
from, validate against, and add to corporate data sources. With
Designer, you can integrate PDF documents into existing workflows
by binding forms to XML schemas, XML sample files, databases, and
web services.
Forms and
documents that are created in Designer can be merged with business
data and rendered as a number of file types, including Adobe PDF,
HTML, SWF, and printing for PCL, Adobe PostScript® and
Zebra (ZPL) printers.
