Don't want to edit your PDF Form in LiveCycle Designer?

i have to admit the first time adobe snuck editing my pdf forms in LiveCycle Designer, rather than Acrobat 8, i was a bit peeved.

however, i figured out that i had to do all form editing, whatever in it, and learned it and do not mind it all now. however, sometimes in a pinch, i'd rather use Acrobat 8 to make a new one, as it's just a bit easier to use as far as the user interface goes... anyway, i've figured out an EASY way to kinda hack around that, and create a new PDF form in Acrobat 8 and prevent it from handing off the creation to Adobe's LiveCycle Designer

i must first mention that in a updater release to Acrobat 8 the rule became that if a PDF form was originally done in Acrobat 8, that all future changes to that PDF can be handled in Acrobat 8. However, if it was a new one, you were pushed to Adobe LiveCycle Designer.

until i figured this out :)

basically you take an existing pdf form that you have edited or created in Acrobat 8. from there, you add the pdf you want to make a form out of to the existing document. then you click the "Pages" button on the left side (in the gutter, looks like a document) and delete the original pdf page(s) and you are left with yours. manipulate the form do whatever you want, save it and you are done!

that easy. and you didnt have to leave acrobat!