Layout in the Form Builder 

Use

When you create a layout in the Form Builder, you define the graphical design of the PDF form. This includes the positioning of the data and the design of tables. You can also specify background pictures for the form, and define the order of the pages.

Integration

The Layout function in the Form Builder calls Adobe LiveCycle Designer, an integrated graphical software tool for creating forms.

Prerequisites

You have created a form context or loaded an XML schema-based interface.

Features

Under Layout in the Form Builder, you can use a wide range of functions to design your form. To do this, you use the form context you have created previously or an XML schema displayed as a tree structure under Data View in Adobe LiveCycle Designer. You can use Drag&Drop to insert data fields from the Data View section in the page layout.

Activities

There are two ways of editing the layout:

·        You choose the Layout tab page. Adobe LiveCycle Designer starts on this tab.

·        In the application toolbar, you choose  Layout (quick info Fullscreen Layout). Adobe LiveCycle Designer starts in fullscreen mode. To access the menu bar and application toolbar, you first have to close the tool.

For more information about editing layouts, see the online help in Adobe LiveCycle Designer.