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From: Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Sun, Jun 02 2013 9:38PM
Subject: Question: Title from Word to PDF metadata
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Wondering if this is a known bug when creating PDFs from MS Word
2010/Windows with Acrobat XI.
The Word document has the Title field correctly filled in Word's Properties
panel (the metadata), but when the PDF is exported from Word and checked
with AXI's Accessibility Checker, it flags an error that the title is
missing.
Open File/Properties in Acrobat and the title field is correctly populated.
There isn't an error.
Anyone know details about this or how to stop getting this flagged as an
error?
- Bevi Chagnon
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From: Jonathan Metz
Date: Mon, Jun 03 2013 5:34AM
Subject: Re: Question: Title from Word to PDF metadata
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Hi Bevi,
In Acrobat, under properties, are you changing the Initial View of File
Name¹ to 'Document Title¹ in the section Window Options¹? When you do
that and save, the title at the top goes from this-is-your-filename.pdf to
the title of the document as it appears in the properties.
Thanks for the clarification.
Jonathan Metz
On 6/2/13 11:38 PM, "Chagnon | PubCom" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>Wondering if this is a known bug when creating PDFs from MS Word
>2010/Windows with Acrobat XI.
>
>The Word document has the Title field correctly filled in Word's
>Properties
>panel (the metadata), but when the PDF is exported from Word and checked
>with AXI's Accessibility Checker, it flags an error that the title is
>missing.
>
>Open File/Properties in Acrobat and the title field is correctly
>populated.
>There isn't an error.
>
>Anyone know details about this or how to stop getting this flagged as an
>error?
>
>- Bevi Chagnon
>
>- PubCom.com - Trainers, Consultants, Designers, and Developers.
>
>- Print, Web, Acrobat, XML, eBooks, and U.S. Federal Section 508
>Accessibility.
>
>
>
>>>
From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Mon, Jun 03 2013 6:36AM
Subject: Re: Question: Title from Word to PDF metadata
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Exactly - the item in the full check has two parts - there needs to be a title defined, and the title needs to be showing in the document window's title area.
See http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/create-verify-pdf-accessibility.html?trackingid=KACNN#DocTitle for the official description.
Thanks,
AWK
Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe Systems
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From: John E Brandt
Date: Mon, Jun 03 2013 8:37AM
Subject: Re: Question: Title from Word to PDF metadata
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Jonathan,
Can you provide more information here...I am not seeing the terms you are
describing...I'm using Adobe Acrobat Pro XI. Are you referring to the
Document Properties or Preferences for the application? Am I understanding
that your methodology makes the "filename" the "title" of the document? Not
sure I would want to do that.
Bevi, as I am getting the same errors (I am using Office 2013), I am just
taking the time and manually editing/adding the Title name to the Document
Properties dialog box and saving.
~j
John E. Brandt
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From: Jonathan Metz
Date: Mon, Jun 03 2013 8:49AM
Subject: Re: Question: Title from Word to PDF metadata
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Hi John,
If you go to File>Document Properties, then select the Initial View tab at
the top, about half way down is are Window Options. Change the drop down
from "Show: File Name” to "Show: Document Title."
This process does not make the “Filename” the “Title” of the document. If
you include the Title in the Document Properties, this shows that title at
the top of the PDF.
Manually editing the Title of the document properties will not clear up
this problem. As Andrew states, this is a two part process. You are only
doing part one, it seems.
Give it a whirl and you’ll see what I mean.
Jonathan
From: Williams, William R -FS
Date: Mon, Jun 03 2013 10:54AM
Subject: Re: Question: Title from Word to PDF metadata
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Given that the full check flags this as an accessibility issue, why is "Show: File Name" the default setting when creating or converting to PDF? Shouldn't Adobe change this behavior?
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From: John E Brandt
Date: Mon, Jun 03 2013 11:44AM
Subject: Re: Question: Title from Word to PDF metadata
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Thanks Jonathan. I understand this now. Historically I have never added a Title to a MS Office document and just relied on the filename for identification. I echo Bill Williams sentiment here regarding the need to do this twice.
~j
John E. Brandt
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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Mon, Jun 03 2013 12:32PM
Subject: Re: Question: Title from Word to PDF metadata
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Bill,
Yes, I agree. Until that happens the accessibility action in Acrobat XI does this for you, so if you use that feature then you'll have it handled automatically (you'll still need to add the title if you don't have one)
Thanks,
AWK
Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe Systems
From: Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Mon, Jun 03 2013 9:16PM
Subject: Re: Question: Title from Word to PDF metadata
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Thanks Jonathan for dusting off my brain's cobwebs about this little quirk.
I filed a request to make the metadata Title the default pickup for the accessibility Title in Acrobat PDFs.
Seems like a logical thing to me!
—Bevi Chagnon