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How to Create PDF Button Form Field to insert
PDF with Image
You can create a PDF Form so that your
client can submit a PDF with images, such as photo ID, using the free Adobe Reader XI or later.
Since the free Adobe Reader can only let you insert a
PDF into a Push Button Form Field, you have to go with five steps in
order to insert an image into the PDF form document.
On your side, you create a PDF Push Button so that your
client can insert a
PDF file into the Button Field. You can add an
Entire PDF Submit
Button if your client can submit an image.
Step 1: Read your PDF into PDFill PDF Editor
Step
2: Add a Push Button Form Field
- Create a Push
Button Form Field
- Select "Options" Tab and
Select "Icon Only" for the Layout
- Enter a JavaScript:
event.target.buttonImportIcon();
Step 3: Save all Editing into a new PDF
On your client side, your client needs to download the
free PDFill PDF Tools and convert the image into a PDF file using the
FREE PDF Tools 9: Convert Images to PDF.
Step 4: Convert Image to
PDF using Image Size
Step 5: Click the Push Button to insert the new
PDF with Image
Please make sure that both you and your
client have the free Adobe Reader XI before you read the following steps.
Here are 5 steps on How to Create PDF Button to insert Image using PDFill PDF Form
Maker:
Step
1: Read your PDF into PDFill PDF Editor
- click the icon of "PDFill PDF Editor"
from your desktop to start PDFill
PDF Editor. You will see a screen like this:

- To open
a PDF file, select Menu
File >
New Project to Open PDF. Or, click
from
Toolbar. Then, a File Selection Dialog comes up. Select
your
PDF file. Please wait a few second until all PDF pages are read
into PDFill.
Step
2:
Add a Push Button Form Field
Step 2.1: Create a
new
Push
Button Form Field
- First, click Push Button
Tool
in the
Forms
Toolbar.
- Then, hold Left mouse button
to create a form field of the required size.
- Finally, the new form field
properties dialog comes up to set the new form field's
properties.
- You can change the border shape and size from
Appearance Tab.
Step 2.2: Select
"Options" Tab and Select "Icon Only"
You have to unselect
"Label Only" for the Label and Icon Layout.

Step 2.3: Enter a JavaScript:
event.target.buttonImportIcon();
From New Push Button Field properties, click the
Actions Tab and then click the Add Button.
- Select
an Action: "Run a JavaScript"
- Select a Trigger: "Mouse Up".
-
Enter a JavaScript:
event.target.buttonImportIcon();

Step
3:
Save all Editing into a new PDF
Please select Menu
File
> Save PDF. Or, click from
Standard Toolbar.

The "Save PDF Options" Dialog will come up. All the PDF Editing will be
saved directly into the original PDF with options:
Output Options,
Description,
Encrypt/Decrypt,
Initial View,
and
Presentation Effect.
You can click each Tab to see the content.
If you just begin to use PDFill PDF Editor,
use the default
options and click "Save PDF as ...".
Please
don't put space inside the PDF file name.
Adobe Reader will have problem to email the entire PDF.
You must
save editing into a project file (PFL) so that you can resume
editing later. To save this project, select
Menu
File >
Save Project or click
from Toolbar.
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Step
4:
Convert Image into PDF using Image Size
On your client side, your client needs to download the
free PDFill PDF Tools and convert the image into a PDF file using the
FREE PDF Tools 9:
Convert Images to PDF.
Click the icon of "PDFill PDF Tools" from your
desktop to start PDFill PDF Tools. Select the
FREE PDF Tools 9.
Click "Add an Image" to add your image into the list.
Select "Use Image Size to decide Page Size with DPI". Just
use the default DPI 300. Save as a new PDF.

Step 5: Click the Push Button to insert the new PDF with Image
Inside
Adobe Reader, your client clicks the
push button and the "Select Icon" comes up. Pick the new PDF with
the image. Click OK. You should see the inserted image inside
Adobe Reader.

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