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Form formats that LiveCycle Designer ES imports

You can import forms into LiveCycle Designer ES that were created in another form authoring application or an XForm XML application, or import spreadsheet data from Microsoft Excel 2002 or later by copying and pasting the content of the spreadsheet cells into a form. You can also import legacy forms as a starting point for creating new LiveCycle Designer ES forms. You can import files from these applications into LiveCycle Designer ES.

 

Application	File types
Adobe Acrobat	PDF
Adobe Form Designer 5.0 or later	XFT
Adobe Output Designer	IFD To import Output Designer files (IFD) into LiveCycle Designer ES, you must install Output Designer 5.4, 5.5, or 5.6 on the same computer as LiveCycle Designer ES.
Microsoft Word	DOC, DOT, RTF
Microsoft Excel	XLS, XML, HTML, XLT, TXT
Microsoft InfoPath	XSN
XForms Model	XHTML, XML, HTML, HTM, XFDL

LiveCycle Designer ES includes a number of options to handle imported files and render the best possible output. LiveCycle Designer ES preserves the layout of the imported form as much as possible and converts the elements into LiveCycle Designer ES objects.

See also 

To import PDF files

To import a PDF document as artwork in LiveCycle Workbench ES

To import a Microsoft Word file

To copy cells from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet

To import a Microsoft InfoPath file

To import an Adobe Output Designer Form file

To import an XForms Model file

Form formats that LiveCycle Designer ES imports