Scripting an Automatic File Name in Save As...

Only by use of a special application level folder script. Thom Parker has written a tutorial about this.

I'm looking to do the same thing using Acrobat OR Livecycle and am trying to get Radzmar's script to work: http://www.acrobatusers.com/forums/aucbb/viewtopic.php?pid=62025#p62025

@gkaiseril: do you have a link to Thom Parker's tutorial? I searched but wasn't able to find it.

Thanks

You can print the pdf through distiller as a postscript file. It converts the postscript to PDF and saves as a flat PDF of the completed state of the interactive form in the pre-defined directory. See example code. You need to setup a pass-through job in distiller to look in the input folder. the result of the job will be in the output folder. If this method may work for you, I can provide you with more details for the distiller settings.

Example:

var txtSiteA = this.getField("txtSiteA");
var txtDateTime = this.getField("txtDateTime");
var txtLastName = this.getField("txtLastName");
var txtFirstName = this.getField("txtFirstName");



if (txtSiteA.value == "HFS")
{
var pp = getPrintParams();
var fv = pp.constants.flagValues;
pp.flags = (fv.setPageSize | fv.suppressRotate);

//this is the indexed page in the active PDF file to print. like an ay, it begins at 0.
pp.firstPage = 2;
pp.lastPage = 2;

var d = txtDateTime.value;

//scand formats the dat and time from the date/time field
var e = util.scand("mmddyyyyHHMMss", d);
var printDate = util.printd("mmddyyyy_HHMMss", e);

pp.fileName = "/c/eTRIAGE_Encounters_Train/in/" + "eTRIAGE_" + txtSiteA.value + "_" + txtLastName.value + "_" + txtFirstName.value + "_" + printDate + ".ps";

pp.printerName = "";
this.print(pp);
}

Refrying is not recommended procedure, unless you want degrade the look of the PDF. And I believe you can not silently print in a PDF.

Thom's article is in the Learning Center under JavaScript Tutorials.

You can print a form silently from within a pdf form. the following is the command line that will print silently, though it must still be executed with an action.

this.print({bUI: false, bSilent: true, bShrinkToFit: true, nStart: 2, nEnd : 2});



Of note the 'refry' purpose is to save a final state of a completed form with a custom generated save name. All layers are flattenned. It looses none of its detail as a form that can be reprinted later.

The 'refry' is not really a 'refry' becasue it is sent as a postript file which is in turn printed as file and saved instead of being printed as a piece of paper. The advantage of printing to a file is that that file can be retrieved and printed as paper as many times as you want. It can be archived and is uneditable. Its purpose is to save a final state of an interactive form in an uneditable format that can be archived. Of course the data is saved in a database and the record can be recalled and edited witht he PDF in the application at which time it is resaved and a new updated file is saved in the archive.

alternatively, and in other cases, you can also render the saved data in crystal reports viewable/savable and printable as a PDF.

Somehow though, I do not think that this is the solution that the other user was looking for.