Yes - we absolutely need the same suite of features that Live Cycle offers because I just found that the new Microsoft 365 environment will not open any .pdf's with XFA formats (created by Live Cycle) and the Adobe Acrobat Pro doesn't even have half the features I'd need to rebuild the form. So I can't create a dynamic form with expanding fields, hiding sections unless needed, etc. in Adobe Pro. This is SOOOOOOOO frustrating. Additionally, Microsoft was stating in another forum that they were looking at testing adding features to allow for other .pdf formats in different web browsers but that this may be a long time coming (if at all) to get Live Cycle forms to work within web browsers again. I can't even believe we're in such a regressive state with Adobe and/or Microsoft. This is globally impactful. This is not an isolated incident and the more people move to different software platforms, the more frustrating this is going to be when they find out how limited they're going to be using Adobe.
Adobe PLEASE figure this out!!! This is creating work stoppages, causing manual efforts and the potential of having to rebuild a lot of agency forms. Additionally, we're now contemplating looking at new software for forms instead of Adobe so that it will integrate with Microsoft edge and google chrome but also the Office 365 suite of software (primary focus is within the DoD365 platform).
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Yes - we absolutely need the same suite of features that Live Cycle offers because I just found that the new Microsoft 365 environment will not open any .pdf's with XFA formats (created by Live Cycle) and the Adobe Acrobat Pro doesn't even have half the features I'd need to rebuild the form. So I can't create a dynamic form with expanding fields, hiding sections unless needed, etc. in Adobe Pro. This is SOOOOOOOO frustrating. Additionally, Microsoft was stating in another forum that they were looking at testing adding features to allow for other .pdf formats in different web browsers but that this may be a long time coming (if at all) to get Live Cycle forms to work within web browsers again. I can't even believe we're in such a regressive state with Adobe and/or Microsoft. This is globally impactful. This is not an isolated incident and the more people move to different software platforms, the more frustrating this is going to be when they find out how limited they're going to be using Adobe.
Adobe PLEASE figure this out!!! This is creating work stoppages, causing manual efforts and the potential of having to rebuild a lot of agency forms. Additionally, we're now contemplating looking at new software for forms instead of Adobe so that it will integrate with Microsoft edge and google chrome but also the Office 365 suite of software (primary focus is within the DoD365 platform).