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I was doing a quick search in Wikipedia for an offical definition on some typographic controls and decided to plug in LiveCycle for fun. I was suprised to find an entry for both LiveCycle and LiveCycle Designer. Both of these entries are quite detailed and largely correct. The definition of LiveCycle provides a good map of the products and desribes their core purpose. The defintion of LiveCycle Designer describes the history of the electronic forms technology that Adobe aquired from Accelio. The Designer entry doesn't mention the release of version 8 with Acrobat 8 in November of 2006. I'll have to go in and add that.

Posted by Jeff Stanier at 11:58 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

One thing that we hear a lot about from our customers is documentation. Whether we are visiting customer sites, a attending a conference or following activity in the forums, we hear about the need for more and improved documentation.

A common thread in these discussions is the need for more information on form scripting. Based on that feedback we created a document that was recently posted on DevNet. It was posted just before Christmas, so you may have missed it if you are not a DevNet regular. It's called LiveCycle Designer Scripting Basics. There is lots of great information in this document including examples, an explanation of the event model and how to debug scripts.

Hopefully you will find it useful. If you have a topic you would like to see more documentation on, please post a comment.

Enjoy!

Posted by Jeff Stanier at 04:07 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

On a number of occasions customers have asked for some of the best practices around the content and sizing of PDF417 barcodes on 2D Barcoded Forms. This presentation is a fairly short overview (20 minutes) of what a PDF417 barcode is exactly, and covers a few suggestions that you can follow to maximize your barcode capacity as well as obtain the best read-rates possible when forms come back into your organization. So, if you have 20 minutes free and are thinking of deploying 2D Barcoded Forms, check it out:

http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/barcodedformselearningpdf417bestpractices/

Feel free to comment and let me know if you have any suggestions of your own.

Posted by at 12:12 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)