Power Apps Add An Image To A PDF Form

Power Apps can be used to collect data and display the results on a PDF document with the help of Power Automate. Populating text fields in a PDF is easy but figuring out how to add an image is not as straightforward. However, you must know how to insert images to show a customer’s signature on a contract or a picture of something that failed during an inspection. In this article I will reveal how to add an image to a PDF Form in Power Apps.

Table Of Contents:
• Introduction: The Sales Contract App
• Create A Sales Contract App In Power Apps
• Enable The Developer Tab In Microsoft Word
• Add An Image Field To The Word Document Template
• Save The Word Document Template To OneDrive
• Generate A PDF From A Word Document Template Using Power Automate
• Transfer Signature Image From Power Apps To A Power Automate Flow
• Generate The PDF Contract From Power Apps

Introduction: The Sales Contract App

Salespeople at a selling & marketing company use the Sales Contract app to collect a contract signature from their customers. A signed a PDF copy of the contract is sent to both the salesperson and the customer.

The PDF contract looks like this:

Create A Sales Contract App In Power Apps

Open Power Apps studio and create a new tablet app from blank. Place a label with the words “Sales Contract” at the top of the screen.

Next, insert another label directly below with the contract text.

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Then add a pen input control and place it below the contract text. This is all we must do to setup the app for now. We will return to it later to insert a submit button.

Enable The Developer Tab In Microsoft Word

When the sales contract is submitted in Power Apps the customer’s signature gets applied to a PDF sales contract. We will create the sales contract template in Microsoft Word and then apply the signature and convert to PDF using Power Automate. Open Microsoft Word and start a new document. Insert the text shown below.

Then right-click on any tab in the ribbon and choose Customize the Ribbon.

Check the Developer box and press OK. Now the developer tab will appear in the ribbon and allow us to create a Word document template.

Add An Image Field To The Word Document Template

In Power Apps the customer will sign at the bottom of the contract. We will need an image field at the bottom of the Word document template to display the signature. Add an image field to the contract.

Right-click on the image and choose Size and Position.

Uncheck lock aspect ratio and choose a height and width. In Power Apps my pen input had a height of 216 and a width of 563 of I chose 2.16″ and 5.63″.

Next, highlight the image field and select Properties.

Input the title and tag Signature Image to identify the field in Power Automate. Save and close the Word Document once finished.

Save The Word Document Template To OneDrive

The Word document template must be stored in a SharePoint document library or OneDrive for Power Automate to access it. In this example we will use OneDrive. Move the sales contract word document template to the root folder in OneDrive.

Generate A PDF From A Word Document Template Using Power Automate

After submitting the contract Power Automate is used to populate the word document template with the customer’s signature image, convert the file to PDF and send the contract as an attachment via email. Open Power Automate and start a new instant cloud flow.

Select the Power Apps (V2) trigger and press Create.

Add a file type input to the Power Apps (V2) trigger named Signature Image and remove the description.

Then make the Signature Image required.

Next, add a compose action with the following code. The Word document template requires the image code to be formatted in this way.

Insert a Populate a Microsoft Word template action and point it to the sales contract we created. Use the output of the compose action in the Signature Image field.

Add a Create File action and fill it with the Microsoft Word document body.

Then Convert the Word Document to PDF.

And finally Send an Email (V2) with the Sales Contract attached. The Power Automate flow is now completed.

Transfer Signature Image From Power Apps To A Power Automate Flow

Now we will complete the Sales Contract App. Go back to the Power Apps and connect the Generate PDF With Image flow to the app.

Insert a button with the text “Generate PDF” at the bottom of the contract.

Use this code in the OnSelect property of the button to trigger the flow and take the signature image as a flow input.

GeneratePDFWithImage.Run(
    {
        contentBytes: pen_Signature.Image,
        name: Concatenate("signature_", Text(Now(), "yyMMddhhmmss"), ".jpg")
    }
)

Generate The PDF Contract From Power Apps

Our app, flow and word document template are now complete. Write a signature in the pen input field to and select the Generate PDF button.

After a few moments the Sales Contract PDF is received via email and shows a signature image at the bottom.

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