A couple of weeks ago I presented a short overview of Adobe LiveCycle ES for the Queensland ColdFusion User Group.

In this presentation I showed

• an intelligent interactive PDF
• a Flash based form guide.
• LiveCycle Workbench tool within Eclipse
• AIR client interacting with LiveCycle ES
• Process Management using LiveCycle Workspace
• Applying security to a PDF using LiveCycle Rights Management

This session was recorded using Adobe Connect and is now available at http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p41893642/

After reading a couple of great articles recently I thought I’d give writing a component (or DSC – Document Service Component) for LiveCycle ES a go. For inspiration I read Mike Hodgson’s Devnet walkthrough article on how to build a component and Christoph Room’s sample for integrating LiveCycle ES with Adobe Share.

Since using the Twitter API has become the modern day “Hello World” I decided to give it a shot. After googling for 5 minutes I found the Think Tank Twitter java interface. A few lines of code and I had my class written ready for LiveCycle integration; Continue Reading

Building LiveCycle forms in Australia or another country that uses English but get a frustrating message in LiveCycle Designer stating “Spell Checking does not support this locale”??

English is English right? Well.. thats a long conversation but for the sake of the keeping things short, you may be wondering why does LiveCycle Designer support US, UK and Canadian English but not Australian English? Product manager Jeff Stanier recently explained to me that Designer makes use of some core spelling libraries and they unfortunately don’t map to all versions of English.

Good news.. starting with Designer 8.1 you can map spell check to other languages. Australian English is not too distant from Canadian English, so how about we tell Designer to just use the Canadian libraries? Easy!

Step to map Spell Check languages..

1. Locate and open up this file for editing “C:Documents and Settings<username>Application DataAdobeDesigner8.1SpellCheckLocaleMapping.xml”

2. There is an exmaple already for us Australians.. all you need to do is take the example out of the quotes so it looks like this;

<LocaleMap>
<Map locale="en_AU" to="en_CA"/>
</LocaleMap>

3. Thats it! Close the file and save, restart Designer, and you should now be able to spell check an Australian form using the Canadian spell check library!

Note: If you find some mismatches between Australian & Canadian you can edit the dictionary and/or add your own words are desired .

Flash and PDF combine with J2EE server to streamline IT development and reduce support costs.

Great review on Adobe LiveCycle ES by Mike Heck of InfoWorld. 

http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/11/01/44TC-adobe-livecycle_1.html