How To Change The Title Of A Pdf

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The intent of this technique is to show how a descriptive championship for a PDF document tin can be specified for assistive technology by using the /Title entry in the document information dictionary and by setting the DisplayDocTitle flag to True in a viewer preferences dictionary. This is typically achieved past using a tool for authoring PDF.

Document titles identify the current location without requiring users to read or interpret folio content. User agents make the championship of the folio hands available to the user for identifying the page. For instance, a user amanuensis may brandish the page championship in the window championship bar or as the name of the tab containing the page.

This case is shown with Adobe Acrobat Pro. There are other software tools that perform similar functions. See the listing of other software tools in PDF Authoring Tools that Provide Accessibility Support.

Open up the PDF document in Adobe Acrobat Pro:

Select File > Backdrop
Select the Description tab to view the metadata in the document, including the document information dictionary
Modify the Title field to add or change the document'due south Title entry

Viewing the Title field in the Description tab of the Properties dialog. The document title is entered in the field.

Note that, with Adobe Acrobat installed, yous can as well enter and read the data properties information from the desktop. Admission the file'south context bill of fare, choose Properties, and select the PDF tab. Any information y'all type or edit in this dialog box as well appears in the Document Properties Description when you open the file.

To display the certificate title in the championship bar of a user amanuensis:

Select File > Properties
Select the Initial View tab
In the Window Options section, select Document Title in the Evidence pull-downward list.

Specifying that the document title be displayed in the title bar. In the Window Options, Show Document Title is selected.

The championship is displayed in the title bar, as shown in the image below.

This example is shown in operation in the working example of displaying document title in the title bar.

The following lawmaking fragment illustrates code that is typical for providing a /Title entry in a document information dictionary that contains a document title.

            one 0 obj       << /Title (Applying Guerrilla Tactics to Usability Testing past People with Disabilities)           /Author (Mary Smith)        /CreationDate (D:19970915110347-08'00')        >>    endobj

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PDF and Accessibility
Section 14.iii.3 (Document Information Lexicon) in PDF 1.7 (ISO 32000-1)
PDF Reference 1.vi, Title entry of the certificate information lexicon

Procedure

Verify that the title for the document is correctly specified and displayed in the user agent title bar past applying one of the post-obit:
- Open up the PDF document with a screen reader, listening to hear that the document title is read correctly.
- Using a PDF editor, check that the document title is specified. Select the Initial View tab to bank check that the title volition be displayed.
- Use a tool which is capable of showing the /Title entry value in the document itemize to open the PDF document and view the /Title entry and /DisplayDocTitle flag settings.

Expected Results

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If this is a sufficient technique for a success criterion, failing this examination procedure does not necessarily hateful that the success criterion has non been satisfied in some other way, only that this technique has not been successfully implemented and can not be used to claim conformance.