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October 13, 2006
Try Adobe LiveCycle Software for Free
Today we have opened up access to two major parts of the LiveCycle family. First of all, we have removed a lengthy form that was required to download Adobe LiveCycle Designer. Instead, you can now login with your Adobe ID and download LiveCycle Designer, without having to fill out any form at all.
Secondly, we've opened up access to the Adobe LiveCycle Toolbox, which runs on Windows only, using MySQL as the database and JBoss as the application server. This single download allows you to try Adobe LiveCycle without committing to the $1495 Adobe Enterprise Developer Program (which is still your best bet if you want access to unlimited email based support!). Do you have a business process that you'd like to automate with PDF documents? You've now got free access to the tools that you require to build your solution. When you're ready to move to a staging environment or production, you can contact Adobe for the appropriate licenses required.
In the future we'll be creating more tutorials and getting started guides that will be posted on the Adobe LiveCycle developer center. For now, I think developers pretty well off, with free access to the LiveCycle Toolbox, LiveCycle Designer (trial), XPAAJ, Flex Builder (trial), Flex Data Services, Flex SDK, Flash Media Server (oh, you missed that news?), the Acrobat SDK, and ColdFusion. If I've missed anything, you can probably download it here.
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shame you still require an Adobe ID. i was about to rave about how awesome this change was, but you still have barriers to participation if it requires a dedicated ID...
[The ID is your email address, and you've got one if you've downloaded anything from Adobe, are a member of ASN, have participated in the Macromedia user forums, have tried the Create PDF online service, bought something from the online store, etc... The list goes on and on. If you've done anything with Adobe in the past, odds are you've got an Adobe or Macromedia ID. We need this in order to communicate updates and changes to the Toolbox. - Mike]
So let me get this straight James, you are annoyed with Adobe for wanting to track and verify (via minimal license agreement) who downloads 10's of thousands of dollars of their hard earned proprietary software.
And, you are annoyed that it takes you a few seconds to create a unique (though rather simple to remember since it is your email address) profile?
Some things in life aren't 100% free and require a tiny bit of effort :-) (even if it is filling out a form)
fyi, I think Firefox and possibly Windows can remember your login/pw for you if you want. Should speed the process of downloading another $5k in software to at most 3 seconds of hassle next time.
I like the Adobe ID. It is a consistent, single-sign-on that can be used to go anywhere, do anything in the Adobe world.
Thanks for opening up Livecycle, I will definitely take a look.
Is there any chance Adobe might open up Breeze Server too? I could use a developer's edition of Breeze for Rapid Training(not Meeting). I've been hired to build a Flex 2/CFMX 7 Training Portal wrapped around Breeze Training, but can't do it unless the client buys the product first. It'd be nice if I could build a prototype with a developer's copy of Breeze. eLearning is taking off and Adobe's sales would too if they'd let developer's sell the product with demos and prototypes.
[Interesting request, I'll forward it to the Acrobat Connect / Breeze team - Mike]
We have a saying at my company for people like you, James. It's "No Soup for you!"
Thanks a much for opening up the Lifecycle suite
It will help us a lot
I have only one small request that the registration web form is buggy and does not store the session information and if one of the field is left out , you need to again re-enter everything
I am expecting Adobe site to be well tested and perfect as you are our Technology leaders
Regards ,
AJIT
While I don't have a problem with the form and data required to get this freebie my complaint is how Adobe is selling the Acrobat line - dealing specifically with the form data save feature.
While there's nothing on the Adobe Web site about being able to use Acrobat 7.0 Professional to create forms that can save data (so that users of the free Acrobat Reader can save their data and not have to purchase any Acrobat software), there's also nothing on the Adobe Web site that says you can not do it either.
In fact, there are little hints that suggest it may be possible, using words like data collection and comment directly on documents.
Now I find out that I need to suggest to my department, after spending hundreds of dollars on Professional, we need to buy another package (LiveCycle) to allow students to save their form data, is going to be a hard sell.
Had I known that there would be other costs for enabling hidden features, I wouldn't have bothered with the PDF route and gone with a simple Web form.
Since Adobe has taken over the Jetforms Workflow System (EPIC) and its now Adobe LiveCycle.
Epic had following components/ tools:
1- Form Designer
2- Process Designer
3- Role Builder
4- Epic Administrator
To my understanding Form Designed is been replaced by LiveCycle Designer.
Can you tell me what products corresponds to the Product No. 2,3,4. listed above.
Thx,
Mufaddal
[Process designer is now Adobe LiveCycle Workflow.
Role Builder and Epic Admin don't really have replacements. The products have changed considerably since then.
- Mike]
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