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Insert an image into pdf (Adobe Acrobat Pro DC) using javascript

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April 15, 2016
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So basically, this what I want to do:

.this.getField('imageField').importImage('path_to_img');

I know this code is not correct, but is there a way to do this? I couldn't find the solution in Acrobat's documentation.

Most questions I found were referring to the problem when user is selecting an image on click of a button. I don't want that.

I need something like what I wrote above becausepath_to_imageis a variable I'm pulling from a database..

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Correct answer try67

Did you actually set the button's Layout to "Icon Only"?

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RossBicknell

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Hi Mirta,

Please can you explain to me how you achieved the final result.

I have it so that I can browse for an image through the button import but I want to be able to open a PDF and it automatically populate a field with an image of a specific name.

I think what you have done here would work but I'm not exactly sure where to place your code to test it.

If you or someone else can explain it to me I would be very grateful.

Cheers

Ross

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michaelw888

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Hi Bernd Alheit,

Recently Try67 found a possible Reader DC bug to show the icon image from a folder level javascript. Do you know how long it will take to be fixed by Adobe?

Thanks,

Michael

Bernd Alheit

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I don't know.

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mirtaš18506131Author

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Yeah I forgot to set it to Icon only.. that did it! Thank you

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mirtaš18506131Author

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I did try it. I tried creating a new action, then I created a new custom command and after that I also tried doing it through tab Javascript --> Document Javascripts. And I just can't get the picture to show (everything else in the script works - pulling data from the excel file, changing colors of the fields, etc.)...

try67

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Did you actually set the button's Layout to "Icon Only"?

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mirtaš18506131Author

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I apologize if this is a dumb question, but I just started using acrobat few days ago..

Is this sentence: "...this method can only be executed during batch and console..." equivalent to doing this:

Tools -->
Action Wizard -->
New Action -->
More Tools -- >
Execute Javascript -- >
Specify Settings -->
*entering js code* + save action -->
running action from the Actions List

?

try67

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It's not a dumb question at all, actually. And yes, I believe it should work from the context of an Action (as it is considered privileged), but try it out and let us know.

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michaelw888

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Hi there, is there a way not to click "Start" action instead of auto run the action when the form is opened?

Thanks,

Michael

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mirtaš18506131Author

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Thank you for the links provided, but I still have some troubles with making this work.

This is the code I wrote:

var f = this.getField("btnImage"); // button field

f.buttonSetCaption("Title");

if (f.buttonImportIcon("/C/image.pdf") == 0) // if 0 == no error

f.buttonImportIcon("/C/image.pdf");

I get the word "Title" written over the button field, but no image is displayed. I wrote the javascript in Action Wizard tool, under Custom Commands. I get no errors in Debugger.

Do I have to use buttonSetIcon() first? Or define the path to an image elsewhere?

try67

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From the documentation of buttonImportIcon:

Note: (Acrobat 8.0) If cPath is specified, this method can only be executed during batch and console
events. See Privileged versus non-privileged context for details. The event object contains a
discussion of JavaScript events.