Hello guys!
I tried finding a solution for this over the past 2 weeks, but I didn't come to a reasonable conclusion.
Let me describe what I have and what I need to do: I have a pdf form which gets filled by the staff at my office and I need a button to save (silently if needed) the file based on different text field values (numbers and letters), in the same folder as the original form. It would be nice to flatten everything before so people won't tamper with what was filled, but that is another discussion.
This being said, during research on the forums, I saw that the saving function of pdf's is not straightforward (meets the purpose of pdf, of course) and I need 2 things:
- a script which I would place in the folder that I use and/or in the install directory of Adobe Acrobat
- the script that goes in the button itself.
I already saw that people have tackled various varieties of this issue (either same folder or field based save as), but not both at the same time. I tried putting together some code, but to no avail. My humble request would be to help me with the following:
1) where exactly do I need to place the .js file that would make the things work? Does it need to be called in a specific way? What should go in that code exactly? I found this variant to start with:
var mySaveAs = app.trustedFunction(
function(oDoc, cPath, cFlName) {
// Ensure path has trailing "/"
cPath = cPath.replace(/([^/])$/, "$1/");
try {
app.beginPriv();
oDoc.saveAs(cPath + cFlName);
app.endPriv();
} catch (e) {
app.alert("Error During Save - " + e);
}
}
);
2) what is the code that could do the required job? I found the following, but I couldn't make it work. I am not proficient in coding, so a little help would help 
// determine the directory path for the current document
var directory = this.path.substring(0, this.path.lastIndexOf('/') +1);
if (typeof(mySaveAs) == "function") {
mySaveAs(this, directory, this.getField("Field1").value + " " + this.getField("Field2").value + " " + this.getField("Field3").value + ".pdf");
} else {
app.alert("Missing Save Function. Please contact forms administrator ");
}
Thank you very much, your help would be vastly appreciated. I have access to Adobe Acrobat Pro XI and Acrobat Pro DC if there's any difference between them.
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