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September 19, 2006
Running LiveCycle Designer on a Mac and Linux
One of the most requested features that we have in the LiveCycle community is to run LiveCycle Designer on a Mac. Well, good news. You can now run LiveCycle Designer 7.1 on Intel based Macs, using CrossOver Mac from CodeWeavers. The following instructions will work with CrossOver Mac, as well as CrossOver Linux, for those of you wanting to run LiveCycle Designer on Linux.
This is completely unsupported. If you need help, please visit the Adobe LiveCycle Designer on Mac forum on adobeforums.com.
Here's how to get LiveCycle Designer on a Mac or Linux. Remember, the machine must be Intel based. No PowerPCs allowed.
Install Crossover
- Download the latest version of CrossOver for Mac or Linux from the CodeWeavers site. (Free trials available for both).
- Install CrossOver onto your machine following the instructions they provide.
Install Designer
- Download LiveCycle Designer 7.1. Either the free trial, the standalone install CD or as part of Acrobat.
- NOTE: These instructions will not work for Designer 8.0.
- If CrossOver is properly installed, you should get a desktop icon or menu item available
- Open up CrossOver and choose to “Install Windows Software”
- Once the installation wizard opens up, check the “Install unsupported software” checkbox.
- Click “Next”
- Choose “Other *.exe file”, and browse to find the executable install file of Designer. This depends on what you are installing: trial, standalone or as part of Acrobat, but the file should be called setup.exe. It may be in designer/AutoPlay/cdimage/install/setup.exe
- Create a new bottle using a “win2000” template
- Follow the windows installation wizard for Designer
Install Reader
- Download Adobe Reader (free)
- As with installing Designer, open up CrossOver and choose to “Install Windows Software”
- Select “Install unsupported software”
- Navigate to executable install file of Reader
- Do NOT create a new bottle; choose to install into “Other bottle” and select the bottle where you have previously installed Designer
- Follow the windows installation wizard for Reader
Install CrossOver HTML Engine
- Open up CrossOver as before, and choose to “Install Windows Software”
- When the wizard opens up, do not choose to “Install unsupported software”; this time, choose to install “CrossOver HTML engine” from the list Install in the same bottle that you installed Designer and Reader
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Comments
Great work on the Mac conversion!
Oh, wait.
Never mind...
Just run windows huh?
Nice.
This is not a solution...you are basically saying to run Windows. I know you are trying to help, but this suggestion is plain insulting to Mac folks.
Hi,
I know you don't want to hear this, but this "solution" is still a POS.
John Welch has said it best here.
Give it a read, and don't just dismiss it out of hand. It eventually devolves into a bitchfest about Acrobat, but read the part about this announcement. This reflects the opinion of most the mac-using document professionals that I've talked with about this.
Why don't you just say "run LiveCycle Designer in Parallels or Bootcamp", it is just as lame of a solution.
Most Adobe (and Macromedia) software works great on the Mac, but Acrobat is one exception - the Mac version is crap compared to the Windows one (both in performance, quality and features). Wish Adobe would give this application more TLC on OS X!
Thanks! I think. Although I still find it unacceptable. When there is a native Mac version, then we can talk.
Mike,
This is NOT a solution.
This is B.S.
Adobe's commitment to the Mac platform is horrible, and you should be ashamed of yourself for even recommending this cop-out solution.
I repeat -- this is NOT a solution, and Adobe has really backstabbed all Mac users.
I'd have to agree. LiveCycle is an embarressment to the mac community.
I'd have to agree. LiveCycle is an embarressment to the mac community.
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