Chapter 22. Getting Familiar with the Designer Workspace
Adobe LiveCycle Designer is a powerful form design program, which becomes very apparent when you open the workspace. Designer makes extensive use of palettes that are loaded with all the tools and properties you need to create your forms.
As we have mentioned in previous chapters, when you create a form in LiveCycle Designer, you cannot edit the form in Acrobat. Now that we have covered the differences between Acrobat and Designer Forms, we are ready to start designing. Remember that unlike Acrobat, Designer allows you to do all the form design within the application. You don't need to use another authoring program to create your form background and labels. Just open Designer, and we'll discuss all the tools you'll need to build a new form.
In this chapter, we cover exploring the basic Designer workspace and descriptions for using tools, menus, and palettes.
Getting Familiar with the LiveCycle Designer Environment
The first thing you see when you launch LiveCycle Designer is the Welcome to Adobe LiveCycle Designer window, as shown in Figure 22.1. The window is designed to help you get started using the program. It contains important links to sample files, new documents, existing documents, and the help files. Take a few moments to explore the options in the welcome window.
Figure 22.1. The Welcome to Adobe LiveCycle ...
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