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Creating Action for scanning with "save as"

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2011-12-19 08:22:51
pefdude
Registered: Dec 19 2011
Posts: 3

Adobe Acrobat X Professional
 
I am trying to create an action per user at my job. Trying to explain to some people how to move around a directory structure is like pulling teeth, so I am trying to make an action to where all they have to do is goto our scanning station, click action, then their name, put in a file name and go back to their desk.
 
I have it setup to where it will scan 400dpi, black & white and be scanned to their network queue, but I am unable to find a way for it to ask for a file name to save it as. Currently just appends the action name and the date as the file name.
 
Was toying with adding javascript to bring up the saveas menu, but I have not found a way.
 
Could anyone help me out with this please?
 
Paul

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 10.1, Windows
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2011-12-19 08:40:32
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gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4307
Have you see How to save a PDF with Acrobat JavaScript by Thom Parker in the tutorials posted on this site?

George Kaiser

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2011-12-20 06:10:49
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pefdude
Registered: Dec 19 2011
Posts: 3
George,
Yes, I have seen that page and tried a few of those scripts there. I am still having issues getting it to work correctly from within the action wizard. Any chance you could contact me out of forum to give me a hand please, especially since it states you work with government forms.

Paul
pef [at] rocketmail [dot] com
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2011-12-21 11:39:55
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pefdude
Registered: Dec 19 2011
Posts: 3
OK, So now I have the document scanning BW, 400 dpi to pdf (Using the action wizard in the Start with: part of the edit action).

Steps "Set Open Options" are all leave as is
Execute Javascript is typed out as app.execMenuItem("Save");

and Save to: set as A folder on my computer, which is a network resource of a path of
\\3dccamden2\DATA\common\QUEUE\frie


So my biggest challenge of this was to get the saveas menu to show up so you can name the file and it gets saved to that path by default (not last used directory).

Now it scanned, save menu comes up, it saves in that network directory AND also saves into My Documents locally.

Any thoughts how I get it to stop saving locally now?

Thank you in advance.

Paul
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