AdobeLiveCycle Designer is a forms authoring tool published byAdobe Systems. The purpose of Designer is to be a one-stop design tool for XML forms to be rendered as PDF or HTML files.In December 2004, Adobe released Designer as AdobeLiveCycle Designer 7.0 as part of the LiveCycle suite of products. This release added the ability to create dynamic forms that do not require the AdobeForm Server for dynamic features, tools for creating Email submissions, and the Paper Forms barcode tool. Designer 7.0 is bundled with AdobeAcrobat Professional 7.0 (on Microsoft Windows only) and available as a stand-alone product. In December 2005, Adobe released AdobeLiveCycle Designer 7.1 as a stand-alone upgrade. Acrobat 8 shipped in November 2006 bundled with a new version of LiveCycle Designer(version 8).