Hi, > Am 11.10.2016 um 10:07 schrieb Gilad Denneboom <gilad.denneb...@gmail.com>: > > Thank for the info, Maruan. I implemented some of what you've described > already, and will try to do the rest next... > Maybe this is a a good "feature" request for future versions?
yes it is - and I'm planning to add that if I find the time but I'm currently very limited. If you'd like to share some of your code please do so - would be good to have a new ticket for that by then. Maruan > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 8:30 AM, Maruan Sahyoun <sahy...@fileaffairs.de> > wrote: > >> Hi Gilad, >> >>> Am 10.10.2016 um 23:28 schrieb Gilad Denneboom < >> gilad.denneb...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> I posted this question to SO >>> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39958843/how-to- >> import-an-icon-to-a-button-field-in-a-pdf-using-pdfbox>, >>> but thought I might get better traction here... >>> >>> I'm looking for a way to set the normal appearance of a button field in a >>> PDF file to an image file, but am not finding any information about this >>> process. The closest I could find was the opposite, ie how to extract an >>> icon from a button field to a stand-alone image file, here: How can i >>> extract image from button icon in PDF using Apache PDFBox? >>> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33295483/how-can-i- >> extract-image-from-button-icon-in-pdf-using-apache-pdfbox> >> >> currently PDFBox doesn't have a high level API to set that. The easiest is >> to create a sample with Acrobat and recreate that. >> >> The basics steps are >> >> - load your image as a PDXObjectImage >> - create a PDXObjectForm with the image as a resource entry >> - put that into the /I key of the fields MK entry >> >> Now this gives you the "Design" part so Readers can use that to regenerate >> the appearance stream. At that point in time the Icon is not yet visible as >> it's not part of the appearance stream >> >> For the appearance stream >> >> - add the PDXObjectForm you created above to the Resouces Entry of the >> appearance stream >> - call the PDXObjectForm in the appearance stream with a transformation >> matrix before to scale the PDXObjectForm to fit the buttons dimension. >> >> BR >> Maruan >> >> >> >>> >>> Thanks in advance! >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@pdfbox.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@pdfbox.apache.org
