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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

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MattM Avatar asked Mar 03 '14 01:03

MattM


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2 Answers

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.

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MattM Avatar answered Oct 17 '22 06:10

MattM


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

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Zachary David Saunders Avatar answered Oct 17 '22 06:10

Zachary David Saunders