Introduction

ADEP Designer is the Adobe forms design tool, integrated into the StreamServe design environment and used as a StreamServe Process tool. Output is produced in various formats, visually identical to the corresponding output from ADEP Document Services Output.

StreamServe Design Center can use ADEP Designer from either a stand-alone installation or from a version bundled with ADEP Document Services Workbench.

You can merge an existing form template with an XML instance document, or you can create a new form template (with bindings to non-XML data formats) in StreamServe Design Center.

The StreamServe Process tool for ADEP Designer can be used to:

•	Import an existing ADEP Designer form template.

•	Create a new ADEP Designer form template.

•	Edit a form template using ADEP Designer.

•	Export preview files and schemas for non-XML data formats for use in a stand-alone ADEP Designer.

Running without ADEP Designer

If you use an existing form template, you can run the StreamServe Process tool without ADEP Designer installed. However, you will not be able to edit the form template in the StreamServe design environment.

In this chapter

•	Templates.

•	Dependencies – Fragments and images.

•	Post-processing.

•	Performance considerations.

•	Supported output formats.

•	Hyphenation.