Why am I finding it so difficult to work with Adobe Designer forms? Why are my Acrobat 7 forms working so differently from my Acrobat 6 ones?
Adobe Designer may be installed as part of Adobe Acrobat but it is a fundamentally different application which simply happens to use PDF as an output format. In more detail… You can use Acrobat to edit forms using the Advanced Editing tools available under the Tools menu. However if you choose items from the Forms menu or toolbar then you will probably find that you end up editing your form in Adobe Designer rather than Acrobat. Adobe Designer uses PDF as an output medium. However the way that Designer operates means that forms created by Designer are fundamentally different from forms created by Acrobat. For example an Acrobat created form typically contains a background and then a set of fields. The fields operate separately from the background. Adobe Designer created forms do not make this distinction. They use a separate data store to specify the fields. The PDF content is merely the visible rendition of this field specification. The underlying field specification is made up of c
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