Books or guides for Livecycle Designer

Hello

as I created forms with Adobe Livecycle Designer, this forum is a great help! However, I was looking for a book or manual about Livecycle Designer. There are several of them, but can anyone recommend a specific book?

Thank you


Erik

Hi Erik,

I strongly recommend to create dynamic with LC Designer Forms by JP Terry - excellent!

A book that does not deal with scripts at all, but is very good is the fact that the work by Caroline Jarrett and Gerry Gaffney.

The Adobe PDF Forms Bible is correct, but focuses mainly on AcroForms.

WindJack Solutions have a service on subscription for the scripts and solutions to http://www.pdfscripting.com. There a lot of AcroForm script which can be modified according to LC designer and a growing library of LC Designer solutions.

Here are some online resources you might find useful:

http://www.Adobe.com/go/learn_lc_scriptingBasics

http://www.Adobe.com/go/learn_lc_scriptingReference

http://www.Adobe.com/go/learn_lc_formCalc

http://www.Adobe.com/devnet/LiveCycle/articles/Adobe_XML_Form_Object_Model_Refer ence.pdf

http://www.Adobe.com/devnet/Acrobat/PDFs/lc_migrating_acrobat_xmlform.PDF

And a very convenient resource (and even if it's for version 6, it is still very good because of the way it is presented):http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/tips/CalcScripts.pdf

There are solutions on the Adobe cookbooks: http://cookbooks.adobe.com/livecycle_designer_es

Finally, discover the network of the developer on http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/

Good luck

Niall

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