Adobe LiveCycle Designer is the form creation tool that comes bundled with
Adobe Acrobat Professional. This is the first and only book that explains
how to use Designer to create interactive and dynamic forms. The book was
written in tandem with the Adobe LiveCycle development team and it has been
thoroughly reviewed by over a dozen Adobe engineers. This book is accessible
enough for a beginner but rich enough for an experienced user. It covers all
of the major topics and includes valuable links to other LiveCycle Designer
documentation and resources.

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Great Book! - 2009-01-13
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This is a great book for new users getting started with Adobe LiveCycle Designer. It is well written and easy to follow, which is not a simple task with most programming tutorials. The book takes you through a series of steps that enable you to create an interactive and dynamic form. Starting with the basics, Mr. Terry explains the benefits of having these forms and leads into a discussion about how to make forms visibly appealing and user-friendly. He then brings you into the beginning stages of actually creating the form using the different features of LiveCycle Designer. After the look and feel of the form is completed, the book guides you into how to make this form worthwhile to have. Mr. Terry shows you step-by-step into adding functionality to the form using JavaScript and FormCalc. An in-depth look at collecting data from the forms is then discussed, which is something that was not done with the sample tutorials that came with LiveCycle Designer. He even provides a "Steal These Scripts" chapter that allows you to use code that has already been written for you. All the sample forms that this book takes you through have their corresponding completed forms on the website. Mr. Terry provides all the resources available for you to get started making these dynamic forms.

A Perfect Forms Developer's reference - 2009-08-03
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Excellent reference for LC Designer developers. The story I am narrating here happened in Late April 2008. The first ever PDF form I was asked to develop was a Complex form that had a constant Header and a constant footer with a body that expands and shrinks based on the number of records fetched from the database. Though I have been a developer for more than a decade, I had no experience with LC designer. Had not even heard of it. The help files of LC designer that came with Adobe Professional 8.x was in its infancy. I was very badly looking out for a book that will give me the technical approach of developing this form. Using the help files I found out that the complex form I had to develop was called here as "Dyanamic Forms". I immediately used this keyword and searched..Bingo!! There the search returned only one book written under this title. Thanks to Mr.Terry. Did not think any further. Bought the book immediately on the same week. Directly went on to page 30-33 for reading some concepts on different types of forms...and then went on to read the book in page 103 where Mr.Terry mentions the title " From the Simple to the Complex". I just read pages 103 to 123 of the book and I was in complete control of developing my form requirements. I had to work on a tool I had never even heard about..all within just 15 days time. I had no time to read the book cover to cover. Customer had chosen this LC designer tool because he wanted the PDF Extension features of the form so that data can be entered and routed for signatures to different levels of the workflow. I do not know if I could have completed this 15 days assignment without reading this book. This book made my customer look good in introducing a new paradigm for the forms in the national level conference held in May 2008. My form was the first ever form that used Live Cycle designer tool for this organization. I am really thankful to Mr.Terry for writing a book which almost acts like an EXPERT in answering any question that comes to my mind - I use keyword apppraoch, go to INDEX and pick up the page and paragraph to read the concept and an implemntation strategy in a self contained manner with simplicity in the language. Writing a book like this a great talent and this book takes you beyond any training that would be given for LC designer. Thanks to Adobe Press for publishing this book. Please buy this book if you need to work with LC designer. According to me it is a must and a desk reference. The simplicity of the language, the font, readability, the graphics all come together as a great package in this book. I would rate this book exceptional.

Adobe LiveCycle Designer - 2009-07-15
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Book is good for basic review and beginning in Adobe LiveCycle. But I really needed more indepth 'how to' in areas such as expanding tables and text options, etc.

Little investment, big return - 2009-05-23
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I was a complete newbie to forms design when I got the Adobe LiveCycle. I used the Help feature quite a bit, but found that I needed more of an overview of the software before I could effectively use the Help feature. Basically, I needed to know WHAT I needed to know before I could go looking for help. So I did a little research and found this book. It provided a GREAT introduction to Adobe LiveCycle. I find that using the book in conjuction with the Help feature is really effective. I've been able to create some pretty complex forms.
If you are new to forms design, I would say that this book is a must.

Get er done - 2009-04-08
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As a physician without a lot of time to invest in learning a new software, I very much appreciated the succinct instructions from Mr. Terry's book. It has enabled me to create easy to fill forms to collect all types of information from my patients- leaving me more time to concentrate on the practice of medicine. Mr. Terry makes the complex readily doable- even for the programming neophyte like myself. Highly recommended.

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