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Save on opening

2007-01-23 20:10:15

udayapadakandla

Registered: Oct 31 2006

Posts: 14

When I open my Acrobat Form (Designer)I would like the program to immediately run a script in this sequence : File->Save AS->and prompt the user to type name of an individual and date (seperated by underscore) and then save the file under that name; not only that it would be nice if the Form would then copy the name and the date to the respective fields in the Form that already exist. Is there a way I can accomplish that? Thanks!

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8, Windows

2007-01-26 10:32:16

thomp

Registered: Feb 15 2006

Posts: 4411

Yes there is. However, saving a form on opening can be problematic because of timing issues, and because saving is a privileged operation. You'll need to come up to speed on Acrobat and XFA (LiveCycle) JavaScript for this task.

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