Image/graphic field that works with Reader

[George_Johnson]

Acrobat allows you to set up a button to display an image/graphic, and allows the buttonImportIcon JavaScript field method to allow a user to select the button icon. This used to work with Reader but was taken away for some reason. Forms create with LiveCycle Designer allow for an image field that can work with Reader, but Acrobat no longer does. There is no good reason not to allow for this type of functionality.

[cathykka]

Can you please elaborate on the javascript? Is there a tutorial somewhere. Thanks.

[George_Johnson]

The JavaScript can be as simple as the following Mouse Up script for a button that's set up with a Layout other than Label only:

event.target.buttonImportIcon();

This JavaScript method returns a value as documented in the Acrobat SDK, and you might want to use it. Note that this method only works with Reader 11 and DC for WIndows and Mac, not any of Adobe's mobile versions.

[sandracD15]

I'm also finding it really frustrating that I can't have users insert an image into forms. It's got to be put back. So much of our work at our school district requires inserting student photos into forms. Now I have to instruct our staff how to convert a photo into a PDF file that's cropped to size. UGGHH. And, for me, to make matters worse, we had an Acrobat 9, which include Live Cycle, and now that we've moved to Adobe DC, my Live Cycle is GONE! So there's no workaround any more. SO FRUSTRATING ADOBE! Please fix this soon!

[Brad S.]

Of course there's a workaround. You can buy a copy of LiveCycle for $299 or upgrade for $139...

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If you wait for Adobe to add image fields back to PDFs, you're going to be waiting a long time.

[jhmblvd]

This is something we use all the time. Our older forms were all created so we could insert an image of the client now it just seems to have been stripped in DC. Really frustrating.

[try67]

No, this feature is still the same...

[jhmblvd]

Not sure what you mean by the feature being the same? In Acrobat 11 we had an image field that we could insert an image into via Reader. I belong to the CC and am wondering do I need to purchase LiveCycle? It doesn't seem to be available in the downloads. Also, many state on Windows LiveCycle comes with Acrobat in Windows, but that's not the case still is it?

[maxwyss]

With Acrobat XI, LiveCycle Designer is no longer thrown after Acrobat for Windows users anymore; it would have to be procured separately.

Answer 46 states what to do with a Button field (configured accordingly) to import an image (unfortunately still only PDF possible with Reader…).

HTH.

[try67]

LCD is sold separately now, that's true, but the feature itself, ie the ability to import an image into a button field in an Acrobat form or to an LCD form, is the same. That's what I meant.