Change PDF title in browser window

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I have a pdf file that I am putting on a website for a client. It is located here... http://www.optiphysicaltherapy.com/dev/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/OPTI_NewPatientForms.pdf

The title should be OPTI New Patient Forms but if you look at the tab in the browser and the name at the top of the browser window it says "Coury And..."

Where can I go to change this?

The website is using Wordpress 3.8.1 and I am not sure if it is in Wordpress or in the actual pdf file.

Thank you,

Matt

Merla answered 3/3, 2014 at 1:12 Comment(8)

Its shows the URL for me... – Carilyn 3/3, 2014 at 1:14

It shows the URL in the address bar but at the very top and in the tab in Firefox it shows the Coury and.. text. Doesn't show up in IE or Chrome. – Merla 3/3, 2014 at 5:5

And what is preventing you from changing it? – Carilyn 3/3, 2014 at 5:7

Good question. I don't know where to change it. It is not an HTML based page, it's a pdf. I have never seen a meta title in a pdf and am asking where I can go to change it. – Merla 3/3, 2014 at 7:51

Well first take a look at this wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-title-on-browser-tab and its pretty straight forward. Since Wordpress is in PHP, that's might be why it looks a bit challenging. – Carilyn 3/3, 2014 at 20:26

I honestly don't think that is it. I don't have that name anywhere related to the Wordpress site. I think it is part of the actual pdf. Is there a meta-title setting in pdfs? – Merla 3/3, 2014 at 22:50

The text displayed in the browser tab has nothing to do with the PDF. – Carilyn 4/3, 2014 at 0:51

See, below. If the PDF has a meta-title it will show in Firefox as if it were the meta-title for a webpage. This is only when displaying just the pdf in the browser. – Merla 4/3, 2014 at 17:6

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Ok, So I found out how to change the meta-data in a .pdf form here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/X/pro/using/WS58a04a822e3e50102bd615109794195ff-7c63.w.html (dead link; archived version here)

Sure enough the Title in the Meta Data within the .pdf was "Coury And..."

Once I changed this the Tab and the Title in Firefox web browser changed to have the title that I wanted.

This shows us that the meta-data in the .pdf does show in Firefox as if it were the meta-title of the webpage when displaying a .pdf within the browser.

Merla answered 4/3, 2014 at 2:0 Comment(5)

Appears that Chrome just shows file path, but FireFox uses the Title meta-data tag. – Kalakalaazar 22/5, 2015 at 15:35

That link is now dead. Adobe ceased support of the version in that link. – Mangrove 9/5, 2016 at 15:10

According to this link it's File > Properties. – Pheni 16/6, 2016 at 23:38

Unix-users can use exiftool -Title="This is the Title" drawing.pdf as in this answer. – Pheni 16/6, 2016 at 23:41

Archived version of link at web.archive.org/web/20150929053233/http://help.adobe.com/en_US/… – Oligarchy 19/3, 2019 at 1:44

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Open the PDF with Notepad++ and search (CTRL+F) for /Title Change title between brackets (and leave the brackets) For instance: Change "/Title (OLD TITLE)" into "/Title (This is my new title)"

Save the PDF and Voila

Raney answered 24/10, 2018 at 16:16 Comment(4)

I guess this should be the accepted solution. OS agnostic and works fine. You could use any text editor. – Stallworth 15/2, 2021 at 6:37

Notepad or other code editors didn't work... And Here is a video about it. youtube.com/watch?v=vJw77is-f50 – Morose 6/9, 2021 at 4:49

This didn't work for me. I opened my problematic PDF in Notepad++, searched for the string "title" via CTRL+F, and got no matches. Boo! (Judging by one of the few non-gibberish parts of the file as viewed in Notepad++, it looks like this particular PDF may have been created with Google's PDFium. Not sure if that has anything to do with it.) I ended up using Adobe Acrobat Pro to edit the file and solve the problem, as per MattM's accepted answer. – Wear 14/10, 2022 at 17:0

This solution is simple and worked for me. – Collapse 21/12, 2022 at 6:50

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Ok, So I found out how to change the meta-data in a .pdf form here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/X/pro/using/WS58a04a822e3e50102bd615109794195ff-7c63.w.html (dead link; archived version here)

Sure enough the Title in the Meta Data within the .pdf was "Coury And..."

Once I changed this the Tab and the Title in Firefox web browser changed to have the title that I wanted.

This shows us that the meta-data in the .pdf does show in Firefox as if it were the meta-title of the webpage when displaying a .pdf within the browser.

Merla answered 4/3, 2014 at 2:0 Comment(5)

Appears that Chrome just shows file path, but FireFox uses the Title meta-data tag. – Kalakalaazar 22/5, 2015 at 15:35

That link is now dead. Adobe ceased support of the version in that link. – Mangrove 9/5, 2016 at 15:10

According to this link it's File > Properties. – Pheni 16/6, 2016 at 23:38

Unix-users can use exiftool -Title="This is the Title" drawing.pdf as in this answer. – Pheni 16/6, 2016 at 23:41

Archived version of link at web.archive.org/web/20150929053233/http://help.adobe.com/en_US/… – Oligarchy 19/3, 2019 at 1:44

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If you have access to the Word document in which the PDF is based, you can define the title when you save the file.

Courtyard answered 1/2, 2017 at 23:0 Comment(2)

Hi Zachary, what version of MS Word are you seeing this title option? You can now disregard my question. But for those of you that ran into what I ran into, the key is you have to expand the file / save as window to see the title option circled above! – Jannelle 23/5, 2017 at 16:20

@kbr That is Microsoft Word 2013 on windows. Yes, you must "Save-As" to see this dialog. – Courtyard 23/5, 2017 at 17:58

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Whatever was on that link, I did it opening the PDF with a hex editor (HxD) and searching Title, so I found /Title (untitled) somewhere and just edited it (changed the value between parentheses, here untitled).

Won answered 10/6, 2016 at 17:10 Comment(5)

Great answer! You can change it in vim as well. Just do "vim <your_file_name.your_file_extension" and search for title by typing "/Title" and then edit it. – Clot 22/8, 2017 at 5:11

The best (and only valid) answer in my opinion! In the same place where you find the title of the document, you can also edit or add other metadata, such as /Author. Regarding /Title, make sure you are editing the right one, because this attribute can also be used to name entries in the table of contents. The format is pretty intuitive. – Jodoin 3/12, 2018 at 20:10

However, it is wiser to use tools like pdftk, as described there, rather than editing the PDF file by hand. Otherwise you rapidly end up with a corrupted file that some applications refuse to open (believing it has wrong DRM, or whatever). – Jodoin 3/12, 2018 at 20:34

I don't have "title" in my pdf at all. – Skeen 4/12, 2020 at 11:46

Not useful anymore. Acrobat PDF reader says that the file is damaged and cannot be opened after changing. – Sweetie 1/3, 2021 at 10:58

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no need to change in meta of pdf. just to following change in iframe url http://localhost:8080/getDataPDF//?patientId=145. use // to solve this problem it can hide your title.

Ola answered 9/11, 2016 at 14:31 Comment(0)

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Open the PDF document in Adobe Acrobat Pro: (OR use google chrome extension)

(1) Go to Select File > Properties
(2) Select the Description tab to view the metadata in the document, including the document information dictionary
(3) Modify the Title field to add or change the document's Title entry

Lactone answered 4/12, 2017 at 10:42 Comment(4)

- When you open pdf in chrome you can hit print and save as pdf. - As file name write what you want as a title in the browser, it should be the same now. – Lactone 6/12, 2017 at 10:24

If you are using fillable forms, this method will delete the fillable form feature and you will not be able to type in the fields. – Cisco 30/12, 2017 at 19:11

You have copied your answer from w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/PDF18.html. Do not present the work of others as your own. – Derekderelict 1/10, 2022 at 5:18

@Cisco Agree – Lactone 2/10, 2022 at 21:48

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When you open pdf in chrome you can hit print and save as pdf. As file name write what you want as title in browser, it should be the same now.

Phenica answered 11/6, 2017 at 21:58 Comment(2)

Dont' do this if you have fillable forms -- it will delete the fillable form capability. – Cisco 30/12, 2017 at 19:10

This is misleading, because OP wants to change the metadata field Title, not the file name. – Anetteaneurin 10/1, 2018 at 19:39

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Open File > Properties, then in the box labeled 'Title', add your title. Click on the 'Initial View' tab, where it says Show:, make sure the drop down says 'Document Title' instead of 'File Name'. This works for Chrome, but sadly not IE yet.

Diapositive answered 3/7, 2018 at 14:5 Comment(1)

"Initial View" doesn't exist in the Mac version of Reader. Is there any way to set this flag some other way? – Narcho 7/1, 2021 at 18:12

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For change my pdf tittle I just open it on nano terminal, or with another text editor that open the raw, and I edit the Title field.

Vala answered 4/7, 2018 at 22:3 Comment(1)

Worked for me. I used Notepad++. – Avoidance 31/1, 2020 at 15:4

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The title can be changed inside MS Office or LibreOffice if you have access to the source by going to file/properties/description.

Lister answered 7/5, 2020 at 20:48 Comment(1)

my client present me this problem, and this was the correct awnser later to search for so mucho forums, thanks so much @Lister – Calabrese 28/9, 2020 at 15:59

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As another answer suggested, printing as a PDF works here if you have the source document. What the other answer perhaps got wrong was that there is an option to add a title in the print dialog.

Garfield answered 11/5, 2018 at 10:29 Comment(0)

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I don't know how, why, or when this works, but if you put </Some words at the end of a PDF URL, they show in the tab name (in Chrome 111, at least)

E.g. compare https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.10555.pdf%3C/Electra and https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.10555.pdf

Doesn't work for all PDFs, I doubt it works for all browsers, but thought I'd share.

Affixation answered 28/3, 2023 at 4:49 Comment(0)

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You can also use this online pdf editor to change metadata of a pdf file.

Bucksaw answered 2/12, 2022 at 18:19 Comment(0)

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The title does not come from the pdf. it comes from the word file you export it from. Right click on the word file, go to details. change the title and export again

Good luck

Cecrops answered 19/6, 2018 at 9:1 Comment(0)

Open the PDF document in Adobe Acrobat Pro: (OR use google chrome extension)

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