User Guide

Adobe LiveCycle Before You Install
Installing and Configuring LiveCycle for JBoss Additional requirements for LiveCycle PDF Generator for PostScript 16
Before installing LiveCycle PDF Generator Elements or LiveCycle PDF Generator Professional, you must
also install the software that supports the file formats for which PDF conversion support is required.
LiveCycle PDF Generator Elements and LiveCycle PDF Generator Professional can be extended to convert
these additional file types to PDF files using the following applications:
● Microsoft Office 2000, XP, or 2003
● (LiveCycle PDF Generator Professional) Microsoft Office Visio 2003
● (LiveCycle PDF Generator Professional) Microsoft Project 2003
● (LiveCycle PDF Generator Professional) AutoCAD 2005
● Corel WordPerfect 12
● Adobe Photoshop® CS2
Before completing a turnkey installation of LiveCycle PDF Generator on Windows, ensure that the Service
Control Manager command line tool, sc.exe, is installed in the Windows environment variable. Some
Windows servers do not have this software preinstalled. By default, the sc.exe file is installed in the
\Windows\system32 directory.
LiveCycle PDF Generator Professional and LiveCycle PDF Generator Elements must be installed on the
same server where it needs to be configured and deployed.
Additional requirements for LiveCycle PDF Generator for PostScript
LiveCycle PDF Generator for PostScript is supported on all of the operating systems listed in “Supported
software” on page 13.
To install LiveCycle PDF Generator for PostScript on Linux, ensure that the bc tool (an arbitrary precision
calculator language) is installed on the computer. You can download the GNU bc tool from
www.gnu.org/software/bc/bc.html
.
Installation, configuration, and deployment checklists
This section includes checklists that you can use to step through the installation and configuration
process. A checklist is provided for installing and configuring when using either the turnkey method or the
manual method.
Before starting the installation, ensure that the JAR files are not associated with WinZip or any other
application other than the Java application launcher.
Turnkey installation and deployment checklist
The following table includes the steps required for installing LiveCycle products using the turnkey method.
Perform this type of installation and configuration if you do not yet have an application server installed
and configured and you want to use JBoss, or if you want to quickly and easily get the products installed
and configured for testing or demonstration purposes.