Is there a way to insert pdf into image field?

[htranssne]

Bascially Im trying to add the image or pdf dynamically similar to the Acrobat importIcon() function which I used to insert pdf,image, and other stuff. But the acrobat uses a button to insert image or pdf and now Im switching over to Livecycle, Im currently using image field to insert images but is there a way make it so it can accept pdf as well? If you can suggest any other way to insert both image and pdf dynamically, it would be great too.

[_Bruce_Robertson]

Hi,

Would you be able to use importDataObject to read the image and/or pdf file ?  You can try it with this code in the click event of a button.

event.target.importDataObject("name");

This will allow you to select any file type.  What do you need to do with the files once they are read into the form?

Bruce

[htranssne]

Thank you for the reply,

basically I would like to allow user to dynamically insert/embed either image or pdf into my form. The files are just for display, the file size of the pdf does not matter much since it used locally.

[_Bruce_Robertson]

I'm still not sure what functionality importIcon() gives you for a PDF file,  but if you had a button with the following code to attach the PDF or image (if it is an image (at least a jpg) then an image field, ImageField1, also gets populated)

if (event.target.importDataObject("name")) // if user did not cancel the "select a data file to import" dialog

{

    var attachmentObject = event.target.getDataObject("name");

    var filetype = attachmentObject.path.substring(attachmentObject.path.lastIndexOf(".") + 1);

    if (filetype === "jpg")

    {

        var imageStream = event.target.getDataObjectContents("name");

        var imageStreamEncoded = Net.streamEncode(imageStream, "base64");

        ImageField1.rawValue = util.stringFromStream(imageStreamEncoded);  

    }

}

Then you could have another button with the following code to allow the user to view it.

event.target.exportDataObject({ cName: "name", nLaunch: 2 });

If you have multple files to attach then each will have to have a different name property "name" in the example above

Hope this helps

Bruce