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Insert picture in fillable form

wmbb
Registered: May 24 2010
Posts: 8

I'm creating a fillable form to archive measuring information.
One of the items I would like to add is a option for users to insert a picture of the measuring device.
Is it possible to create this option ?
 
Thanks in advance

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 9.0, Windows
George_Johnson
Expert
Registered: Jul 6 2008
Posts: 1876
If you're creating the form in Acrobat, it's possible to use a button for this, but not for Reader users, which is a silly restriction. It used to be able to. I recently submitted a feature request to bring this functionality back to Reader and encourage anyone else who wants this to do the same.

Reader users can paste an image if commenting is enabled. If it needs to be visible, they can paste an image that they somehow copy to the clipboard. It gets pasted as a stamp, and the user is free to place it wherever they want, can resize, and even rotate, which isn't usually ideal. The problem is getting the image copied to the clipboard.

They can also add a file comment. The problem with this is the image does not appear on the form.

Forms created with LiveCycle Designer can include an image field which allows the user to browse for a file and the image appears in the defined area.
wmbb
Registered: May 24 2010
Posts: 8
Thank you for this information.
Can't this be done with a smart javascript either ?
George_Johnson
Expert
Registered: Jul 6 2008
Posts: 1876
Nope. There's not even a usage right that can be applied to allow it. Crazy.
NK-INC.COM
Registered: Apr 17 2010
Posts: 93
You can create an XDP document with an image field value set with Base64 encoding.

When the PDF loads the XDP data, the image is loaded into the image field.

Loading an image field with base64 encoded XDP data can be accomplished using FDFToolkit.net.

Note:
Loading images fields only works with XDP data and Static LiveCycle PDF forms.

For more information visit:
http://www.fdftoolkit.net/

For questions:
http://www.nk-inc.com/support/

For programming tutorials:
http://www.nk-inc.com/blog/
Merlin
Acrobat 9ExpertTeam
Registered: Mar 1 2006
Posts: 766
As already said, user can copy-paste an image into the form using the Comment tools : image can be seen in the form but it's not part of form-datas.

Another way is to embed an image as part of form-datas but it can not been seen on the form…
See that sample file : http://abracadabrapdf.free.fr/parking/import-image-field.pdf

;-)