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mhuellwegen
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Jun 12, 2019

"Tab Title" should show PDFs Title Text of the file if set

The upcomming version of Edge browser should show PDFs document title, if set, instead of only showing the PDFs file name.   Sometimes the Name of a PDF file could be very "simple", e.g. doc4711.pd...
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DarrenMH
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Jun 12, 2019

Hi mhuellwegen - great question and ask. I dug in to this and discovered the PDF document should have the Title metadata set. Afterwards, a browser (not just Edge Insider) will use it for rendering the tab title.

 

In short, the PDF author/creator needs to set the data field. Via Acrobat Pro, open the PDF and select File -> Properties -> Description and then edit the metadata title.

 

Hope this helps.

 

 

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