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Create folders via Save As menu item in Acrobat Apps
I just stumbled on this this morning, coincidentally after reading the Mail.app sub-folder hint.

In Acrobat Professional, if you use File: Save As, you can include a new folder in the file's name. So if you name the file NewFolder/untitled.pdf, Acrobat will create a new folder called 'NewFolder' with the 'untitled.pdf' PDF file inside.
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Create folders via Save As menu item in Acrobat
Authored by: Spartacus on Aug 16, '05 10:50:35AM

I bet it's actually a bug. There are supported ways to create folders from save dialogues. In this case, Acrobat should name the file as typed, including the slash.



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Create folders via Save As menu item in Acrobat
Authored by: hamarkus on Aug 16, '05 02:47:46PM

Except that some apps don't allow you to use the slash in the file name in first place. The slash being the only character not permitted on the on (BSD?) Unix. Most GUI apps (and probably all based on Cocoa), includung the Finder, get around this by mapping the slash to a colon, as it can be seen in the Terminal. The colon was the only character not allowed in the classic Mac OS and OS X tries to make it look like this is still the case.

This can create some confusion, in command line apps one can use the colon but the finder will then show them with a slash instead of the colon. But in command line apps one cannot use the slash (it is interpreted as a folder hierarchy). And in the Finder its the colon that is not allowed.



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