Change filename prompted when submit form by email

My form has a submit by email button for users to submit the filled form through email(attached as pdf). Upon clicking the submit button, I want the pdf attachment to be in a customized filename (eg:YYYYMMDD_form1_txtfield1.pdf), or the least if user choose to submit using external webmail and prompted to first save the file, the filename(on the Save As dialog) will automatically be set to the customized filename.
Is this possible? or Is there any other alternatives? I had went through a number of forums/articles on this but I did not find the solution.
Thanks loads.

The send pdf in an email will save the fiel as is in a temp folder with the name of the PDF that already exists. If you want to change that name you will have to do a file save operation. For security reasons you cannot automate the file save without the user's knowledge (they have to click OK). I do not know of a way to seed the SaveAs dialog with the filename that you want.
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I created a form that can be downloaded, viewed and completed by the user in Acrobat reader, and then sent by email as a pdf-attachment by pushing a submit-button. As the form will be sent by several different users to the same address, in order to avoid confusion it would be good when the filename would not be the original form name, but someting based on the individal data entered by the user.
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