How can I import a picture of my character into the official 5e character sheet? When I click on the field in the fillable form it doesn't give me any options. Apologies if this is a dumb question but I'm not terribly tech savvy. Thanks!
As far as I've discovered, it only accepts pdfs. So you have to save whatever picture you're using as a pdf file. I've been using Open Office to do that.
Thank you. How do I import it once I have it saved as a PDF?
There's a free graphics program called Inkscape that can import and export PDFs (one page at a time) and superimpose graphics files. It won't preserve form-fillable fields though, so do it as the last step after you have filled in everything else.
I've been able to do it with jpg files with no problem. When you go to select your file, there should be a dropdown to change the file type (although some users have reported that this doesn't work for them). It works fine for me using Acrobat 9, and I know others who have had no problems doing this using the free Reader.
I think I figured out my problem. From what I gather, when you click the "Character Appearance" field it should bring up a menu to choose what you would like to upload to the form. For some reason, the field isn't working for me. I hover over the field and my cursor changed to the familiar hand, but when I click the field, it highlights in blue for one second but then does nothing. Any ideas?
wildboar wrote:
When I open the sheet in Acrobat Reader, a pop-up dialog opens when I click in the Character Appearance box; which only allows the import of a PDF file. However, you can Cut & Paste an image (or portion of an image) into the sheet; then resize it and move it overtop the Character Appearance box.
I would be sure to keep the image size just slightly larger than the box, since I couldn't seem to grab the edge of the image that was within the box area (to resize it).