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Acrobat Pro DC Trying to add save button and save fillable PDF

  • April 25, 2018
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Trying add a save button on fillable form to save progress on an exam. Then student can reload and continue exam.Added bonus would be the ability to save online to a predetermined folder.

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Correct answer Thom Parker

Yes javascript or ajax would be my choice  Here is the JS  used to process the login form.   I am not a professional developer but know enough to clobber together some fairly decent sites. I know there is a way because at one time e was being tr and tansferred and echo $_POST['e'] was working. THNX

<script>

function emptyElement(x){

    _(x).innerHTML = "";

}

function login(){

    var e = _("email").value;   

    var p = _("password").value;

    if(e == "" || p == ""){

        _("status").innerHTML = "Fill out all of the form data";

    } else {

        _("loginbtn").style.display = "none";

        _("status").innerHTML = 'please wait ...';

        var ajax = ajaxObj("POST", "logProc.php");

        ajax.onreadystatechange = function() {

            if(ajaxReturn(ajax) == true) {

               

                if(ajax.responseText != "logged"){

                    _("status").innerHTML = 'error';

                    _("status").innerHTML = ajax.responseText;

                    _("loginbtn").style.display = "block";

                } else {

                    _("status").innerHTML = ajax.responseText;

                    window.location = "profile.php";

                }

            }

        }

        ajax.send("e="+e+"&p="+p);

    }

}

</script>  


Acrobat JavaScript has almost nothing to do with Browser JavaScript, except for the core language. So you're script above is not useful for submitting data from a PDF. Please look over the Acrobat DC SDK Documentation 

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Thom Parker
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Thom ParkerCommunity Expert
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April 25, 2018

Ideally, you add a button to the PDF, select the MouseUp trigger on the properties dialog for the button, And then select "Execute a menu item" for the action. Then select the "Edit->Save" menu item.

Unfortunately this doesn't work because the Save menu item is blacklisted for form operations.

Here's an article on how it's done.

https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/how-save-pdf-acrobat-javascript

Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScriptingUse the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often
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That did not work in Acrobat Pro DC   I have a simple login form and have tried html with all all fields to a php online.  which works with my regular login form but field data is not acessable. Also tried send to url and neither work.  I would provide files and such to troubleshoot but I know already what your answer will be Just tell that doesnt work either. And my reply will be when are they going to finish writing the software?

Thom Parker
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Thom ParkerCommunity Expert
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April 25, 2018

I'm unclear what HTML and PHP have to do with saving a form from Acrobat to a local folder. The article explains exactly how to save a PDF to a local file folder, and it works perfectly.

If you want to save the PDF to a server, then that is a different question with a different answer.  Please explain in detail what is you want to do.

Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScriptingUse the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often
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