2 problems with populating pdf forms

I created a form in LiveCycle on top of an existing PDF. The form has 2 text fields (a company name) and an image (a company logo), and all are dynamically populated depending on who requested the form. I am using CF 8 to read the database and populate the fields. See tags below.
1. I have tried a zillion different ways to generate a line feed in one of the text fields but to no avail. In all cases, the characters actually appear in the output text.   Supposedly the LiveCycle doc says I can use udf escape sequences like "\u000d\u000a" but those do not work Other attempts included '\x0d\x0a' " \r" "<br>" \line but to no avail.
Does anyone know what character sequence to embed in a text field to cause a line feed in the output PDF?
2. I cannot find any documentation on how to specify the value for an imagefield on the PDF form. I am trying to place a company logo but nothing comes out on the pdf. Apparently I need something other than value="logofilename.jpg" but I can't find any doc on what to use.
Here is my code - very simple:
        <cfpdfform source="#sourcePDFpath#" action="populate">
            <cfpdfsubform name="topmostsubform">
                <cfpdfformparam name="txtAssocName" value="#Trim(assocName)#"> 
                <cfpdfformparam name="txtAssocAddress" value="#Trim(assocAddrFields)#"   > 
                <cfpdfformparam name="logo" value="1.jpg" > 
            </cfpdfsubform>
        </cfpdfform>
Thank you, in advance, for your help!

Not sure if there is a way to pass a graphic into a PDF like that, but I've done it lots of times by positioning the graphic onto a PDF file using the iText java library (ships with CF). Might want to head over to http://www.lowagie.com/iText/ to check it out.

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