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Topic: Re: Import image into PDF dynamically
Conf: (P-PDF) Developers, Msg: 32028
From: ken kloes
Date: 12/28/2001 02:51 AM

On 12/28/2001 2:37:41 AM, LeonardR wrote:
>At 02:27 AM 12/28/2001 +1100,
>p-pdf-developer Listmanager
>wrote:
>>To those dedicated souls working this holiday week I have a question. I
>>have an application using ASP that inserts a logo(PCX or JPEG) into a
>>PDF. This is done dynamically by incorporating methods offered by the
>>ActivePDF Toolkit. The resulting PDF is viewed outside our company with
>>Adobe Reader only.
>
>OK. One question to you - if
>this is working, why switch??
>And
>if it's not working, what sort
>of problem(s) are you having?
>
>
>>My question ...is there another way to dynamically insert a logo into a
>>PDF by using only native Adobe products?
>
>You won't be able to do
>"server-side" insertion (since
>the
>standard Acrobat family
>doesn't run on a server).
>
> However...
>
>
>>Can FDF do this?
>
>Yes, though it only works for
>form buttons (not any
>arbitrary
>place in a PDF) and it only
>allows you to insert PDF files
>(not JPEG or PCX).
>
>
>Leonard


Yes the activePDF solution is working for us very nicely in another project developed internally. However, I wasn't very clear in my original message that this is a new project. Business management is questioning why we need activePDF and that this should be a common feature of Adobe products(in their opinion). In regards to the FDF possibility. We could store the logos as PDF's and create form buttons on our base PDF. If the end-user is going to be viewing the resulting PDF's with Reader only is there anything additional that needs to be installed on their desktop if we go the FDF route?

Ken