Adobe LiveCycle

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Course Outline | Adobe LiveCycle — Designer

Designer's Flexibility for Different Users

  • Knowledge Workers Start with a Template
  • Graphic Designers Start with a Page
  • Data Designers Start with a Schema
  • Web Designers Start with an Interaction
  • Bringing It All Together

Creating Your First Forms

  • Method 1: Starting from a Blank Form
  • Method 2: Creating a Form Based on a Template
  • Method 3: Creating a Form Based on a PDF File
  • Method 4: Creating a Form Based on an XML Schema
  • Interactive Form Example
  • Dynamic Form Example

Course Outline | Adobe LiveCycle — Forms

Form Design

The Importance of Form Design

  • The Form as a Branch Touch Point
  • The Form as an Indicator of Service/Product Quality
  • Good Form Design Saves Time and Money
  • Improving Form Aesthetics Improves Usability

Principles of Good Form Design

  • Simplicity
  • Consistency

Graphic Design Tips

  • Choose a Font
  • Creating a Hierarchy Through Font Style and Size
  • Other Typography Tips
  • Clearly Relate Captions to Actions

Interaction Design Tips

  • Guiding with Button Design
  • Notifying Before Correcting
  • Clarifying Choice with Radio Buttons and Check Boxes

Form Guides to the Rescue

  • What Form Guides Are
  • How Form Guides Work

Form Creation

The Layout Editor

  • The Script Editor
  • The Palettes
  • Text Objects
  • Graphic Objects
  • Image Objects
  • Field Objects
  • Button Objects
  • Check Boxes and Radio Buttons
  • From the Simple to the Complex

Master and Body Pages

  • Master Pages
  • Body Pages
  • Examining Master Page Properties
  • Examining Master Page Properties

Subforms and Flow

  • How Subforms Work
  • Subforms and Data Files
  • Subforms and User Interaction

Tables

  • The Table Object
  • The Table Assistant and Table Menu
  • Dynamic Tables

Fonts and Tabbing

  • Embedding Fonts
  • Tips of Tabbing

Form Scripting

FormCalc and JavaScript

  • FormCalc
  • JavaScript

The Script Editor

  • The Script Editor in Single-line View
  • The Script Editor in Multiline View

Basic Scripting

  • Your First Scripts
  • Properties
  • Variables
  • Referencing Objects

The Form Object Model

  • Understanding the Object Model
  • Scripting the Form Object Model

Events

  • Examples of How Events Work
  • Types of Events

Script Objects

  • Creating a Script Object
  • Writing Functions in Script Objects
  • Referencing Functions in Script Objects

Debugging Scripts

  • The Warnings Tab of the Report Palette
  • The JavaScript Debugger
  • The Message Box Method

Form Data

Data Basics

  • Working with Data in Acrobat
  • Working with Data in Designer
  • Formatting Data
  • Submitting Data

Data Binding

  • Binding Form Elements
  • Types of Binding

Data Validation

  • Validating Data Using the Empty Message Field
  • Validating Data with Patterns
  • Validating Data with Scripting
  • Form Validation with Scripting

Barcodes

  • Barcode Types

Retrieving Data from Web Services

  • Connecting to a WSDL File
  • Calling the Web Service
  • Creating a Bible Verse Lookup Form

Steal these Scripts

Short Scripts

  • Message Box Scripts
  • Mutually Exclusive Check Boxes
  • Changing Background Colors
  • Changing Images
  • Setting a Field as Required
  • Working with Page Numbers
  • Get Today's Date

Medium Length Scripts

  • Highlighting Required Fields
  • Data Validation
  • Dynamic Entry Subform
  • Validating User-entered Text in a Drop-down List
  • Calling a Web Service
 

Course Details

Designer

Name
Adobe LiveCycle — Designer
Price
$995
Date
TBA
Length
3 days
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Forms

Name
Adobe LiveCycle — Forms
Price
$895
Date
07/07/08 - 07/08/08
Length
2 days
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What's Included?

Included In The Cost Of The Course: Course Book, Breakfast And Lunch, And Certification Test Voucher!

Instructor

Rich Baim

An Adobe Certified Instructor for Adobe Premiere Pro with over twenty years of video editing experience. Rich has a Master of Science degree in Instructional Media and was one of the beta testers for Premiere Pro 1.5. He currently works in the eLearning department at a technology center and specializes in streaming media for health education. Rich emphasizes real-world problem solving and provides "hands-on" experiences for students.

Margaret A. Gaeddert

Margaret "Margee" Gaeddert, is a certified professional designer and owner of G Art & Design in Oklahoma City. A 30 year career in design as an art director, graphic designer, illustrator, and web designer has awarded her regional, national and international awards. She has worked with Fortune 500 and 1000 corporations such as AOL, Avon, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co, Sony Music, CNBC.com and Gucci. Local corporations include American Fidelity, KOCO Television, Metropolitan Library Association and Sperry Van Ness. She teaches design at the University of Central Oklahoma. Gaeddert enjoys serving on the board of the Oklahoma Watercolor Association, and two design advisory boards supporting education in Oklahoma. She holds a bachelor's of fine arts degree and is an accomplished award winning fine artist in watercolor media, calligraphy and caricature art.

Jason Gaines

Mr. Gaines is a certified professional in both Logic Pro 8 and Soundtrack 2. He is currently in demand as an instructor of both applications. Current projects include independent film work and collaboration on the television series, LA Ink. Jason Gaines is a New York City based trumpeter, composer and arranger. He has performed and recorded with some of the most influential performers in the jazz idiom including Arturo Sandoval, Roy Hargrove, Joshua Redman, Freddie Hubbard, Jackie McLean, Gerald Wilson and others. He holds degrees from Manhattan School of Music, New York University and Teachers College, Columbia University.

Foster Johnson

Foster Johnson is the Owner and Lead Creative for Foster Johnson Studios. He has 10 years of professional creative development and leadership experience in interactive, print and advertising, executing creative direction, art direction and team strategy. An architect of numerous web based commerce and database connectivity solutions, as well as e-commerce, telecoms, entertainment, advertising, publishing, photography and video for broadband. Johnson is an Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI) with expert level application skills in Adobe Creative Suite 3, including: Flash using ActionScript 3.0, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects Pro, InDesign, Acrobat Pro, Captivate 3.0, LiveCycle ES as well as QuarkXPress and web application development using advanced CSS, SQL, AJAX, XML, RSS, Google AdSense and AdWords.

Rick Allen Lippert

Rick Allen Lippert is president of Lippert Media in Oklahoma City with 30 years experience on both sides of the camera. Specializing in industrial production, he has won numerous awards for his writing, producing, and directing for clients such as the Oklahoma Arts Institute, Oklahoma City University, the City of Oklahoma City, the University of Central Oklahoma, the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration.His commercial clients include CompSource Oklahoma and Dane Design. Rick has been using Final Cut Pro since version 1.25. As an adjunct instructor, he teaches video production at Oklahoma City Community College and media writing at the University of Oklahoma.

Brian Mays

Brian Mays has 5 years of teaching at the University of Central Oklahoma and Oklahoma City Community College, 9 years of day-to-day web and print design at OPUBCO Communications Group, and 2 years as president of Oklahoma’s AIGA chapter. When Brian was young he picked up a pencil and drew Disco Mickey Mouse. Then about 15 years ago Brian was stricken with The Graphic Designer’s Curse and could not look at print and digital design works without mentally deconstructing and reconstructing them to figure out how they were built.

Kiri Roberts

Kiri Christopher Roberts is the creative director of One Media USA, a media production house located in Albany, NY. Born in Zimbabwe, Kiri migrated to the UK where he received a Masters in Audio Production from the University of Westminster in London. With a diverse international experience he has worked on music production, TV commercials, documentary films, music videos and currently ‘Frozen River’ the movie. Kiri is also a contributing writer for the Edit-Well magazine whose editor is Larry Jordan of LA. Kiri balances his time between his business and as a trainer for Apple Pro Apps. He is an Apple Certified end user and trainer for Motion 3, FCP6, STP2 & Logic 8.

Luis Sierra

Luis Sierra is an experienced Apple Certified Trainer for Color and all levels of Final Cut Pro 6. He teaches custom classes in DVD Studio Pro 4 and Motion 3. Luis attended the Macintosh Learning Center in New York City. He continued his education at an Apple Certified Training Center and became their IT/Editing Systems manager for 3 years and then the Apple Certified Instructor in Miami. He has also worked in technical support for video editing systems at National Trade Shows such as the Digital Media DC Conference in Washington, DC, the Avid Government Training Symposium in Washington DC, and NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) in Las Vegas NV. Luis brings real world experience into the classroom and shares it with his students.

Luisa Winters

Luisa Winters has been in the professional videography industry for 17 years. An awards winning videographer / editor, her tips make editing and compositing more productive, faster, and far more inventive. Luisa is a featured instructor for NAB, Government Video Expo, DV Expo, CES, NAB - NY and PMA. An accomplished videographer, editor, 3D animator and graphics designer, her compositions have been seen on broadcast TV as well as in private video productions. She has created and edited scores of video and web projects for dozens of corporate, government, and educational, commercial and private clients. Luisa has conducted training sessions and master classes for Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Flash and Encore DVD. Luisa is a Johns Hopkins University Graduate and is fluent in both English and Spanish.

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