Replace Form Logo on forms common to multiple clients (Branding Forms)

If your clients will have at least Acrobat Standard installed on a machine, you can set up a button as an image/graphics field. You can use the buttonImportIcon field method to make selecting the graphic easier.

For example, set up a button to have no visible background or border and make it icon only. In the button's Mouse Up event use the following JavaScript:

event.target.buttonImportIcon();


Many file formats are supported, including PDF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, EPS, HTML, and TIFF.

How can this be done if the user does not have Acrobat?

In order for someone to save a modified PDF, they will need at least Acrobat Standard. Whether it's you or your client who sets up the logo, Acrobat is needed.

If your clients want to enable the forms you provide to be saved with Reader, they will need at least Acrobat Standard to extend the forms for their users. You cannot do this for them.

With FDFToolkit.net, you can populate a livecycle image using Microsoft .net:
Here's an example:

cFDFDoc = New FDFApp.FDFDoc_Class
cFDFDoc.FDFSetFile("http://localhost/nameofdoc.pdf")
cFDFDoc.XDPAddForm("subform1", "http://localhost/nameofdoc.pdf")
cFDFDoc.XDP_Add_ImageField("ImageField", Server.MapPath("nameofpic.jpg"), True)
Response.Clear()
Response.ContentType = cFDFApp.MimeXDP
Response.BinaryWrite(cFDFDoc.FDFSavetoBuf(FDFApp.FDFDoc_Class.FDFType.XDP, True))
Response.Flush()
Response.End()

[quote=How can this be done if the user does not have Acrobat?[/quote]

You could provide a server-based service to accomplish that. You would set up a simple upload page from where your users can provide the logo. On the server, you would have the template document and an utility which merges data with it, such as FDFMerge from Appligent.

Actually, with that mentioned utility, you can specifically flatten the field into which the logo goes, making it part of the base document. This does actually provide a "harder" branding than using a button field for the end user.

HTH.

Max Wyss.

Thanks

Adobe Acrobat is a family of application software developed by Adobe Systems to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF).All members of the family, except Adobe Reader (formerly Acrobat Reader), are commercial software; Adobe Reader however, is available as freeware and can be downloaded from Adobe's web site.
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