Form Fields in Acrobat Pro 9

I have searched the Internet without success. I have
created a pdf form and I would like to be able to drag and drop a photo into a form field. I haven't found anything saying that this is even possible but I am sure this can be done. May just be a wild idea but If anyone has any ideas of thoughts on this please share.

I have spent a few hours trying to figure out how to
use the text touch up tool and or a button to accomplish this task. The Text touch up tool
is gray in the menu pull down and it won't let me use it. I have tried several different ways and nothing so far. The button idea... I could see where it would work but after trying several actions I don't know which action to chose and the settings to make it work right. Can you be more specific as to how the tools will fit my need. Thank you for your help!

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    One of the 'forms' is a certificate clients of my clients will get. In this certificatie is a graphic area in which the account manager, who makes the sell, has to type in the company name of the new client.
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    Can anyone help me with this or maybe tip me on an alternative?
    Thank you!
    Regards, Liek

    This is for a text field that you create in Acrobat, whether the form is used offline or online. The script is a custom Format script, which you can place by bringing up the Properties dialog for the field, select the Format tab, set a format category of Custom, and you should see where you can enter the script. Change the string "Instructional text goes here" to the text you want to display when the field is blank.

  • Linking text form fields in Acrobat Pro

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    Acrobat's Form Wizard is good but not perfect when creating form data from a PDF. I have never encountered Acrobat not able to finish the process of creating all form fields, but have encountered very slugish performance afterwards when there was a lot of forms, buttons, and other elements within the pages. And I would say, from your attached PDF, it is pretty heavy with content. I am going to suggest an idea, but I have not tested this to see if it would work.
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  • What levels of Acrobat are needed to use forms created in Acrobat Pro 9?

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    Reader 7 and higher should be able to fill out forms and submit if the pdf format allows Reader 7 to fill out the form. However, without problems is a different issue. Submission of forms via email is ALWAYS a problem. It is always better to post the form on a website and have the form filled out on the web and have the data stored or sent to a database for further action.

  • How does one strip out all Live Cycle data from a PDF and rebuild the form fields in Acrobat?

    Someone in a different department built a bunch of forms in Live Cycle. We now need to make minor edits to these forms but we all have Macs and can't use Live Cycle. Currently our only option to change a date and a name on each form  is to buy a new Windows workstation, buy a copy of Live Cycle and train someone for it.
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  • How to find and replace data in form fields in acrobat xi, its not allowing to do so while trying, a

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  • Creating an empty signature field in Acrobat Pro X

    I want to make an empty signature field in Acrobat Pro X, so that Acrobat Reader users can later sign it. I know how to enable that last part ("extended PDF Reader"), but don't know how to make an empty field.

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  • Where do I hide the color in form fields in Acrobat DC?

    Where do I hide the blue color in form fields in Acrobat DC?

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    You can also turn on form field highlighting via a menu item as you could via the button in the blue bar in Acrobat XI.
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  • Can't select CMYK text colour for text fields in Acrobat Pro forms?

    I have designed a business card template in Indesign, and now want to use Acrobat Pro to add in text fields so that a client can edit the contact details on the cards in future.
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    LiveCycle Designer ES 8.2 == LiveCycle Designer
    =========================================
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    Thank you Niall for the above response; Your response gave me an idea which allowed me to remove that line by zooming in to 200%
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    I would really like to do it inside Acrobat because then if I have to make some minor changes to some field properties, all my hard work which I did by filling the fields gets deleted, as I am forced to use LC. The text I add to the fields don't get deleted when I edit the field properties inside Acrobat. I don't know why LC decides to delete all the text which is filled out in the form fields even though the PDF is saved in Acrobat before being imported into LC?
    Here is the above PDF file with the text boxes:
    http://www.mediafire.com/?lnn32jm5am5
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