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Well, I tried the generate_fdf option to produce an fdf from the PDF file containing the image, and got only an empty output, as follows:<br />
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%FDF-1.2<br />
%âãÏÓ<br />
1 0 obj <br />
&lt;&lt;<br />
/FDF <br />
&lt;&lt;<br />
/Fields []<br />
&gt;&gt;<br />
&gt;&gt;<br />
endobj <br />
trailer<br />
<br />
&lt;&lt;<br />
/Root 1 0 R<br />
&gt;&gt;<br />
%%EOF<br />
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I'll go ahead and try it a few other ways and report what I find.....
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Sounds good. In the meantime, I'll try some experiments on my end.
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OK, some success: using the flatten option with pdftk, we were able to get the image and the text fields onto the form at the same time like we needed. Since you pointed me in the right direction, I'm willing to give at least some points; however, we also have a new difficulty.<br />
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We would really like the finished PDF to have a button on it that can be clicked to Activate printing, but as you know after you've &lt;Flattened&gt; the form fields in the final product they're no longer interactive. Know of any way we can get around this?
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Unfortunately I don't mean using Acrobat Professional to manually put on a button. It must be a part of the PDF that has already combined the image and the regular PDF, after flattening, and must happen in some automatic way similar to pdftk.<br />
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Though, I haven't tested every possibility yet, I admit.
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I know of two libraries that can do this — ByteScout and iTextSharp. I've used the ByteScout library to extract text from PDFs and it works well, but I've never used it to add a push button into a PDF form. However, based on my experience with the text extractor, I think it's worth a try:<br />
<a href="http://bytescout.com/products/developer/pdfsdk/bytescoutpdf_push_button_for_pdf_form.html" rel="ugc">http://bytescout.com/products/developer/pdfsdk/bytescoutpdf_push_button_for_pdf_form.html</a><br />
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For the iTextSharp libarary, here's a link that discusses it:<br />
<a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9193145/adding-button-in-a-pdf-file-using-itextsharp" rel="ugc">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9193145/adding-button-in-a-pdf-file-using-itextsharp</a><br />
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Note the reference to Chapter 8 of the manual:<br />
<a href="http://itextpdf.com/book/chapter.php?id=8" rel="ugc">http://itextpdf.com/book/chapter.php?id=8</a><br />
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I haven't used iTextSharp, but it's a well-regarded PDF library that is very popular with programmers. Regards, Joe
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We are currently using &quot;raw&quot; fdf, such as the following:<br />
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&lt;&lt;&nbsp;/V (51)/T (field_146) &gt;&gt;<br />
&lt;&lt;&nbsp;/V (STRING)/T (field_148) &gt;&gt;<br />
&lt;&lt;&nbsp;/V (7353)/T (field_149) &gt;&gt;<br />
&lt;&lt;&nbsp;/V (HELLO WORLD)/T (field_150) &gt;&gt;&nbsp;<br />
<br />
to populate form fields on a PDF form, in conjunction with the pdftk.exe &nbsp;executable. We <br />
also have a certain image (which will change in nature for each separate PDF generated) that needs to be inserted as well. <br />
<br />
I was trying to insert it as the image on a button (AP, or APRef, was it????) but evidently that isn't going to work unless I make it some kind of &quot;template&quot;, which I hope I can do with this raw FDF and pdftk.exe.<br />
<br />
Any ideas? I would think this should be simple and straightforward enough to do with the raw FDF, especially since the image is in a ready PDF file itself.
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We are currently using "raw" fdf, such as the following:

<< /V (51)/T (field_146) >>
<< /V (STRING)/T (field_148) >>
<< /V (7353)/T (field_149) >>
<< /V (HELLO WORLD)/T (field_150) >> 

to populate form fields on a PDF form, in conjunction with the pdftk.exe  executable. We 
also have a certain image (which will change in nature for each separate PDF generated) that needs to be inserted as well. 

I was trying to insert it as the image on a button (AP, or APRef, was it????) but evidently that isn't going to work unless I make it some kind of "template", which I hope I can do with this raw FDF and pdftk.exe.

Any ideas? I would think this should be simple and straightforward enough to do with the raw FDF, especially since the image is in a ready PDF file itself.

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Using &quot;raw&quot; FDF to insert an image with pdftk.exe

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