I just opened a document from a federal government agency for a strategic plan, and the URL tab says “Recipe Book.”
How does that happen?
Sounds like they replaced page content and forgot to retitle it.
May depend on the browser. PDF files have a “title” field in the header, but Acrobat DC and Internet Explorer seem to display the filename rather than the title.
Is it a strategic plan on “How to Serve Man”?
I could have nothing to do with the PDF file itself.
Oooh, we had this problem for a long time. In Word + Powerpoint, there is another field called “title” in the information for a document- same place you can see the list of authors. On Apple Word or Powerpoint, when you print or save as a PDF, this title (if it is filled out) becomes the title of the PDF when viewed on Adobe on a Windows machine. I don’t know what the Field in the PDF is called. (But in a browser or Preview, the PDF file name always showed up. Only in Acrobat or adobe products did the Title appear.)
As far as how we found this out, a long bad story that technically breached many confidentiality agreements…
The title in the URL tab may be in the HTML header attributes (e.g.: <title>) and not coming from the PDF file at all.
I just opened a random PDF file to see what is in there, and there are fields for Document Title, Author, Author Title, Subject, Description, Description Writer, Keywords, Copyright Notice, Copyright Info URL, Application, etc. Basically, you can cram any sort of metadata in there.
If it is a PDF you can edit, click Ctrl+D to open the Document properties window. There are several metadata fields there, one of them is Title.
You could just open the PDF in a text editor, and search for the word “recipe”.
In older versions of Acrobat Pro, at least… File menu --> Properties --> Description tab. Title, along with Author, Subject, keywords.
Just checked Foxit Reader. It uses the file name and ignores the title property.
Ditto Edge.
Vivaldi and Chrome use the title property.
So, YMMV.