inserting background art into existing form?

You can try to open the form in Acrobat and replace the page, "Document => Replace Pages...".

thanks for your suggestion but this didn't work - the field was grayed out (probably because its just a single page) but I'm pretty sure that would only swap entire page out, not replace elements within a page

I found the edit>replace artwork will let me change existing backgrounds in a form created with pdf art background (create interactive form with fixed pages) but I want to know if its possible to just design the basic transparent field content first and add the .pdf artwork afterwards?What I want is something like layers in Photoshop - have text fields in a top "layer" that is otherwise transparent, and "slide" full page a pdf exported from InDesign beneath

When I choose create interactive form with flowable text, it gives me an error box saying I've lost my CMYK color and vector art shapes made in Illlustrator - so our brand color is off and the logo is totally pixelated, and some parts are just plain missing

unfortunately starting a form as fixed page severely limits alot of the dynamic functions... no adding pictures, no subforms

The grand scheme is to have one label template to rule them all - a single pdf with every layout for each part label and let dropdown boxes detrmine which artwork is displayed, and a check box to switch between bag and case labels - these need to look professionally printed so precise color and clean art are a must

I know LiveCycle wasn't designed for high quality off-set printing, but if anyone knows a work around to start a page as an interactive form and still work with CMYK vector graphics please let me know!!

Thanks

just a though but perhaps you are going about this in the wrong way - Save your print ready work as a PDF - crop marks CMYK etc etc
open it in Designer ( not flowable) then place the fields over where you want them - specify font etc
then create another pdf without you text open it in designer and simply copy the fields over.
this should keep vectors - did it a while back

i created a portfolio but now am unable to insert a background. the choices are not active on the document \ background menu choice. how do i insert a background image?

thanks,
matt

Background to where? A Portfolio is not directly a PDF, it is a collection of different PDF-files within a PDF container.
Open one of the portfolio's PDF-files, save it separately to your harddrive and edit it.
After that, reimport it into the portfolio to replace the older version of it.