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• • February 20, 2015 at 3:46 am #73430
    David Murphy

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    hello. I often have clients who change the names of pdfs I send them. Is there a way of embedding an Indesign file name in to the pdf document properties, so that even if somebody changes the name of the pdf I can still discover the original indesign file name. Im on a mac, using CS6. thank you.

  • February 20, 2015 at 5:38 am #73431
    Dwayne Harris

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    Sure. Once you make the PDF, go into properties and in the “Title” section, add the information you want. Even if the PDF itself is renamed, the title box info will be the same.

  • February 20, 2015 at 5:51 am #73432
    David Murphy

    Member

    thanks Dwayne. Is there any way of automatically doing this when making the pdf?

    • February 20, 2015 at 6:02 am #73433
      Dwayne Harris

      Member

      With your InDesign file open, go to “file” and scroll down to “File Info” then click the “Description” tab.

      You’ll get the dialogue box where you can put in the title. When you export that file to PDF, that title name will be there.

  • February 20, 2015 at 6:04 am #73434
    David Murphy

    Member

    Great thanks Dwayne for your help.

    • February 20, 2015 at 6:32 am #73435
      Dwayne Harris

      Member

      You’re welcome :)

  • February 20, 2015 at 6:57 am #73437
    Anonymous

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    Hi David,

    I don’t think you can reach that in a normal use of InDesign (i.e. on manual PDF exports). However, you can do that with a script :

    https://ozalto.com/debug/originalName.jsx.zip

    That will add a custom xmp metadata to the output PDF file which value will be the original name. The script is basic but if you want more changes feel free to come back to us at ozalto.com

    https://ozalto.com/debug/metadata.png

    HTH,

    Loic
    https://www.ozalto.com

    • February 20, 2015 at 3:45 pm #73442
      Dwayne Harris

      Member

      I’m not sure what you mean, loicaigon. What I said does work in the normal use of InDesign and manually exporting a PDF.

      I will check out your script, though. Thanks.

  • February 20, 2015 at 7:46 am #73438
    David Murphy

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    Cheers Loic, that would be really useful. thanks mate

  • February 20, 2015 at 4:01 pm #73443
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    @Dwayne,

    Our messages crossed each other. When I saw David’s post, there wasn’t yet your answer and when I posted, the screen refreshed and I saw your comment.
    I wasn’t sure that the metadata would survive to the PDF export that’s why I thought of a script ;). It’s good it does simply as you introduced.

    Best,

    Loic

  • February 20, 2015 at 4:30 pm #73444
    Dwayne Harris

    Member

    No big deal, Loic :)

    I did a simple test, and the metadata did go through.

    I’ll check out your script. I’m amazed at you guys who can write scripts. I can’t do ’em.

    I had no problem writing Word macros, but scripts just boggle me.

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