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For example, you might use Adobe InDesign to create the form layout, including captions and brief instructions, and then export it as a PDF.

To help you make this decision, lets first look at the form from the end-users point of view.

Then we will look at the pros and cons of using Acrobat or LiveCycle Designer from a form-author perspective.

End-user viewpoint To the end user, all PDF forms have a file extension of.pdf, whether the form was produced by Acrobat or Designer.

Look a little more closely, however, and you will start to notice some differences.

These differences generally dont stand out as much as the coloring of a horse versus a Zebra.

Probably the first thing the user of a Designer-created form would notice is that the form fields can be dynamic.

Unlike Acrobat form fields, which are always of a fixed size, Designer forms can expand.

Need more space to explain that 750 bottle of champagne on your expense report The Please Explain field could be set to grow until it is the size of, well, your nose.

Designer Field Set to Expand Click image to enlarge As the field expands, the user might notice that the form has increased in size from one to two pages.

Again, Designer forms can dynamically expand as users fill in fields or add sections or subsections to a form.

When a page is full, a Designer form can produce a new page (with a new layout) to accommodate the additional information even when the end user is using Reader.

Designer forms also have field types not readily available in Acrobat-produced forms.

Most prominently, a Designer form can include an Image Object field, which lets users easily add graphics, such as a photograph, to a form.

Designer also has a barcode field, which Acrobat 7 Professional and 3D do not.

Acrobat Form Toolbar Designer Object Library End users also can use Designer forms that can use the Initiate Data File Collection Workflow feature in Acrobat 7 Professional and 3D.

See Collecting form data via email in Acrobat Help for details of using this procedure.

There are more possibilities that an astute end user might notice.

As you can see, there are some useful features in Designer forms that are not available in Acrobat-created forms.

Now, what might they not see in a Designer-based form A Designer-created form inserted into a PDF catalog generated by Adobe InDesign, for one.

You cannot combine a Designer-created form pages into a regular PDF and make it appear as a seamless whole.

You must insert Designer forms as attachments into regular PDFs.

Designer forms require at least AcrobatReader 6.02, and in some cases 7.05, to operate correctly.

How much more That depends on how much JavaScript is in the form and the method used to insert calculations.

Personally, I would not count on anything older than AcrobatReader 5.05.

Viewer Warning Message.

To create a form in Acrobat, you first start with a template of some kind.

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