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August 18, 2006
Great new tutorial for LiveCycle Forms
If you're interested in LiveCycle and seeing what its capable of, Zee at Flexlive.net has a great new tutorial showing you the power of LiveCycle Forms. The tutorial and sample code show how to bind XML data to a PDF form. Its a fairly simple example, and for now requires the LiveCycle Forms product, however I think you can do something similar with the XPAAJ library, which is available for use for Adobe enterprise customers - owners of LiveCycle, ColdFusion or Flex enterprise licenses.
One thing to keep in mind while you watch the tutorial: what Zee is not showing there is the fact that the PDF form can grow or shrink in size depending on the content that you send to it. I'm not sure that the example shows the power of LiveCycle and PDF forms. But, if you think about areas where you need a PDF printed document that grows or shrinks depending on the content (an invoice for example), then you begin to understand the power of LiveCycle and PDF form technology.
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Along these lines, someone at Adobe should rewrite the Eclipse plug-in installer for LiveCycle Designer so it works with Flex Builder 2. It's at http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/livecycle/Designer_Plugin_Eclipse_3_x.zip
Should be a fairly easy job for someone who is familiar with Eclipse and has access to the source.
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