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Hi, 

 

Where I can edit the title shown in browser tab? I created PDF document using Affinity Designer and I guess it created the title based on file name and now I need to edit it.

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You can't do it in Designer. In Publisher you would set it in the Fields panel before Exporting.

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If you have a PDF Editor like Adobe Acrobat Pro (not sure about the free Acrobat Reader) or PDF X-Change Editor, you can change (add/edit/delete) Metadata there.

Regards,
Otto

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Try exiftool eg
exiftool -title="New Title" -creator="New Creator" -author="new author" paths.pdf
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Then check it
exiftool paths.pdf

Creator                         : New Creator
Title                           : New Title
Author                          : new author

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7 hours ago, David in Яuislip said:

exiftool -title="New Title" -creator="New Creator" -author="new author"

Nice, Exiftool makes a copy of the given file + renames the unedited version with the suffix ".pdf_original".

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10 minutes ago, thomaso said:

Exiftool makes a copy of the given file + renames the unedited version with the suffix ".pdf_original".

You can add the parameter -overwrite_original to the command if you don't want it to.

Worth reading this for more detail about the way ExifTool edits pdf metadata. 

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