how would i go about using an image....

[chaosinc]

o.k. here is my dillema. i need to make a ton of pdfs. 70,000+. how would i use the same graphics file for all 70,000+ pdf's? i need to have each pdf reference 3 or 4 of the same graphics in every pdf. the problem is that if i incorporate these in every pdf i will need somewhere in the neighborhood of 400 gigs worth of cdrs. is there a way to say, have 1 copy of these graphics on each disk and have the individual pdfs reference them without the graphics being in each pdf?
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[Murgle]

Yes.

You need to use the buttonImportIcon method, and your image file must be converted to a pdf.

Create icon only buttons where you require the images to be in your doc, but don't specify an icon.

Lets say you create a button called "picture" and you want to populate it with an icon called icon1.pdf from a cd on drive d: in folder called "icons".

Set the following document javascript:

var pic = this.getField("picture");
pic.buttonImportIcon("/d/icons/icon1.pdf", 0);

It should populate the specified button with your picture - obviously for more pictures just repeat the script naming each field and source icon as required.

Hope this helps.. Ahhhhh, I see you have a machine that goes Bing!