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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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John Shale shared this idea  ·   ·  Report…  ·  Admin →
Implemented  ·  AdminAyush Jain (Lead Software Engineer, Adobe) responded  · 

Hi,

We are delighted to share with you that Acrobat and Reader Desktop release for DC Continuous (20.012.20041) is Live now and this takes care of this Feature Request.

For more Info refer here : https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/whats-new.html

A new document preference is added to let you use the filename as the document title. By default, the preference is disabled. To enable the preference, go to Acrobat preferences, and click Documents in the left pane. Under Open Settings, select Always Use Filename As Document Title.

Please update your Acrobat/Reader (It should Auto update or you should do Help → Check for updates) and let us know your Feedback.

Thanks
Ayush Jain

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    easy - use nitro or foxit instead of adobe :)

  • Dani commented  ·   ·  Report

    PLEASE make it the default or make an option to always show the file name, not the title, on the tabs. I regularly have 10+ files open, and all the tabs say the same thing. It's making my job much more difficult. I found the setting to update this for each document, but that's also time-consuming to set it on each of the hundreds of documents I get each week.

  • ays commented  ·   ·  Report

    "Advanced Search" feature should show "file name" instead of the "Title" property in the search results. The need for the solution of this issue is urgent.

  • r commented  ·   ·  Report

    The "Advanced Search" feature appears to function the same way and displays the "Title" property instead of the file name in the search results.

    What ever solution is planned should also address the results displayed in the "Advanced Search" function.

  • Khaled commented  ·   ·  Report

    I totally agree, it's very frustrating!!

  • TIna commented  ·   ·  Report

    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

  • ezra commented  ·   ·  Report

    Very frustrating. Please add this feature.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    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  ·   ·  Report

    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  ·   ·  Report

    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  ·   ·  Report

    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.

  • Lee commented  ·   ·  Report

    please address asap, this is ridiculous with the new update

  • user202005141904 commented  ·   ·  Report

    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  ·   ·  Report

    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  ·   ·  Report

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

  • William Fruth commented  ·   ·  Report

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

  • BOB commented  ·   ·  Report

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

  • ray commented  ·   ·  Report

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

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