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Designer is a forms authoring tool published by Adobe Systems. The
purpose of Designer is to be a one-stop design tool for XML forms to be
rendered as PDF or HTML files. Designer began as a component of PerForm,
an Electronic forms software package created by Delrina. Delrina was
bought by Symantec in 1995, which subsequently sold its Electronic Forms
division to JetForm in 1996. JetForm (later renamed Accelio) was
purchased by Adobe in 2002. Adobe ended the support of the Accelio
version of the product in 2004. In late 2003, Designer was redesigned
and released as the Adobe Forms Designer. In March 2004, Adobe shipped
Adobe Designer 6.0 for use with Adobe's Intelligent Document Platform
and with version 6 of the Adobe Acrobat software. This release included
support for creating dynamic forms with data propagated by the Adobe
Form Server, support for the XML Data Package (XDP) file format, as well
as importing existing forms from Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Output Designer,
Microsoft InfoPath and Microsoft Word.
