Ted Padova - PDF Forms Using Acrobat and LiveCycle Designer Bible

PDF Forms Using Acrobat and LiveCycle Designer Bible

Ted Padova and Angie Okamoto

PDF Forms Using Acrobat and LiveCycle Designer Bible

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Ted Padova:

For Arnie.

Angie Okamoto:

For my family, who put up with me while I tried to figure out how to become an author.

About the Authors

Ted Padova is the former chief executive officer and managing partner of The Image Source Digital Imaging and Photo Finishing Centers of Ventura and Thousand Oaks, California. He has been involved in digital imaging since founding a service bureau in 1990. He retired from his company in 2005 and now spends his time writing and speaking on Acrobat, PDF forms, and LiveCycle Designer forms.

For more than 17 years, Ted taught university and higher education classes in graphic design applications and digital prepress at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of California at Los Angeles. He has been, and continues to be, a conference speaker nationally and internationally at PDF conferences.

Currently he lives in the Philippines where he serves as President/CEO of his company ApoVisions, Inc. a company working with third-world nations to develop electronic document workflows and forms routing.

Ted has written more than 30 computer books and is one of the world's leading authors on Adobe Acrobat. He has written books on Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Reader, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Adobe Illustrator. Recent books published by Wiley Publishing include Adobe Acrobat PDF Bible (versions 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9), Adobe Creative Suite Bible (versions CS, CS2, CS3, and CS4), Color Correction for Digital Photographers Only, Color Mangement for Digital Photographers For Dummies, Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 For Dummies Just the Steps, Creating Adobe Acrobat PDF Forms, Teach Yourself Visually Acrobat 5, and Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Complete Course. He also co-authored Adobe Illustrator Master Class Illustrator Illuminated and wrote Adobe Reader Revealed for Peachpit/Adobe Press.

Angie Okamoto works as the Director of Enterprise Development for Easel Solutions in Lincoln, Nebraska. She has been in the technology training industry for more than nine years. Angie is an Adobe Certified Expert, an Adobe Certified Instructor and a Master Level Microsoft Office Specialist. She currently specializes in Adobe Acrobat, Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite, and PDF forms. Angie enjoys presenting at business associations and conferences on PDFs, Acrobat forms, and LiveCycle Designer forms. Teaching is her passion, getting excited about each of the new features released in the new versions of the software, and sharing them with her students.

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PDF Forms Using Acrobat and LiveCycle Designer Bible is written for a cross-platform audience. Users of Microsoft Windows XP Professional or Home Edition, Windows Vista Professional and Home Editions, Tablet PC Edition, and Apple Macintosh computers running OS X v10.2.8, 10.3, 10.5 and later will find references to these operating systems.

About This Book

This book is like having two books in one. The first half of the book is devoted to working with Adobe Acrobat on both Windows and the Macintosh. The second half of the book is devoted entirely to LiveCycle Designer ES, which is a Windows-only program. In Chapter 20 we provide some guidance for using LiveCycle Designer ES on an Intel Macintosh computer using virtual desktop software, the Windows operating system, and the Windows version of Acrobat Pro.