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Andy Ty1

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Save as menu item

Aug 29, 2012 12:04 PM

Been playing with a config.js folder level script for a couple of hours now without much sucess... can anyone help

I want to create a menu item in the FILE menu of acrobat reader x for a save as function that specifies a predefined filename and path

Can anyone help out, really stuck on this one and is desperate for tommorrow.

Many thank

Andy

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1. George Johnson,

Aug 29, 2012 1:11 PM in reply to Andy Ty1

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The following tutorial should help: http://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/how-save-pdf-acrobat-javascript

If you get stuck, post again, and provide more details.

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2. Andy Ty1,

Aug 29, 2012 1:27 PM in reply to George Johnson

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Hi Still struggling can anyone have a look at this script not sure where im going wrong...

app.addMenuItem({cName:"-", cParent:"File", cExec:" "});
app.addMenuItem({cName:"Sign with Click2Sign", cParent:"File", cExec:"doc.saveAs('/C/Click2Sign/ForConversion/export.pdf');"});

Thanks

Andy

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3. George Johnson,

Aug 29, 2012 1:45 PM in reply to Andy Ty1

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What exactly is the problem? Are either of menu items not being added? Do you see any errors in the JavaScript console? Also, the code that include the doc.saveAs method to save the file needs to be in a trusted function, as explained in the tutorial.

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