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Add option to use file name instead of TITLE in the Adobe Acrobat Reader

It is difficult to figure out which file is which when viewing multiple files with the same TITLE. The person using the reader is powerless to change the title.

PLEASE provide a global preference / setting in the Reader,preferences to have the Reader use the file name all the time.

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  • TIna commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The lack of this feature is seriously frustrating! When reading through presentations in preparation for mye exams, what I usually end up with is 10 different pdfs with "powerpoint presentation" as the title and no way to tell which is which. If they displayed the file-name they'd be numbered and properly named by subject

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I would have thought I could find a solution to this in some old archive post. Then I'm shocked to find out that this is still not a feature. Please fix this. Thanks!

  • Kurt Willey commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please allow Adobe Acrobat to display PDF file name rather than only the title.

    Competitive product "PDF Exchange Viewer" for example will allow the file name to be displayed or the title.

    Additionally the advaced search is not a floating window but attached to the PDF viewer window.

    Much easier to deal with.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    PLEASE address asap. We really need this.
    We open more than twenty files, and use different file names to quickly index.
    But stuck when files are displayed using titles:(

  • Don commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Wow. Not only should this be an option, but it should be the default. To think that, after decades of exposure to Excel, Word, PowerPoint, notepad, wordpad, visio, project, matlab, visual studio... (I could go on) I'm stuck with dealing with this where I frequently have many PDFs open at the same time with the same "document title". The whole point of having a filename displayed is so that, when you're looking at an open file, you know which one you're looking at (nifty, eh?). If a doc has a TITLE, that's what a title PAGE is for.

  • user202005141904 commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please add this option as soon as possible.
    It is really necessary, because the title very often ist not meaningful.
    In the meantime I have to use another PDF reader.

  • Colt Flowers commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I just had a customer refuse to release a document created by me because the Document Title didn't match the file name. This issue is now causing my company time and money. Please fix this, I don't think it would be hard to add an option to always display the file name as the document name.

  • sk commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please fix title bar to file name! PLEASE! Document title does not need (useless).

  • William Fruth commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Consider this as another vote.
    I doubt this would be a lot of work, and it's an obviously needed feature.

  • BOB commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I open four files for review, they all say STATEMENT ... that's pretty unhelpful!

  • ray commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    15 comments in one month should really be a motivation to implement this task. Thank you adobe!

  • Colt Flowers commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This need to be fixed. It is not uncommon for me to have many pdfs open at the same time at my work. When 90% of them display my company's name as the title when I hover over them to see which one I need to select, it makes it challenging to select the correct pdf.

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