Images in FDF are not supported.. Paulo
----- Original Message ----- From: "keigwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 3:44 AM Subject: [iText-questions] Importing Images through FDF I would like to be able to populate a PDF Form with images dynamically. I have server-side code that generates an FDF containing dynamic data, including image file paths where needed. I've gotten this approach to work by converting the images into PDF templates, and referencing them in the FDF using an APRef. The PDF form field receiving the image is a button, and the image is set as the button icon. Acrobat has no problem importing these image PDFs and rendering them properly, either using files on my file system or by serving the FDF from a web server and rendering the PDF in a browser. I would like to do the same thing server-side using iText, but haven't gotten it to work. My C# code looks like this: public override void writePdf(Stream p_form_input_stream, Stream p_pdf_output_stream) { Stream l_trimmed_stream = UtilityStream.trimTextStream(base.m_form_data); l_trimmed_stream.Position = 0; FdfReader l_fdf_reader = new FdfReader(l_trimmed_stream); p_form_input_stream.Position = 0; PdfReader l_pdf_reader = new PdfReader(p_form_input_stream); PdfStamper l_stamp = new PdfStamper(l_pdf_reader, p_pdf_output_stream); AcroFields form = l_stamp.AcroFields; form.SetFields(l_fdf_reader); l_stamp.Close(); } The PdfStamper properly accepts non-image fields from the FDF, but not the images. A sample FDF is shown here: %FDF-1.2 1 0 obj << /FDF << /Fields[ <</T(Id)/V(101) >> <</T(DataItem3)/V(9876) >> <</T(DataItem2)/V(1/1/2001 12:00:00 AM) >> <</T(DataItem1)/V(Some String) >> << /T (ImageFile)/APRef << /N << /F (c:\\dev\\xslent\\website\\TestImage.pdf)/Name(imageTemplate) >>>>>> ] >> >> endobj trailer << /Root 1 0 R >> %%EOF Any help on how I might make this work would be greatly appreciated! K- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php
