How to eliminate automatic prefix to filename?

  • Unknown's avatar
    michellemech · Member ·

    When I upload a PDF file of a Powerpoint document, the filename is prefixed in the tab, with what I think is the description that was entered when the site was initialized. This is not appropriate. When I upload a PDF file of a Word document, this does not happen. How can I eliminate the prefix? or access the initial site description to blank it out?
    eg. filename: 1 – The State of Our Oceans – 130512 shows up as: PLASTIC IN THE OCEANS – 1-the-state-of-our-oceans-130512.pdf

  • staff-ozmodiar · Staff ·

    Hi,

    If you click on Media–>Library from your site’s dashboard, then roll your mouse over the media file that you are looking to change, you will see an edit link pop up. Click that link and you will be able to edit the file name and even it’s URL. Though to be advised, editing the URL means that you would have to fix broken links in your already published posts where that pdf is linked to.

    Please let me know if you have further questions or if anything is unclear.

  • Unknown's avatar
    michellemech · Member ·

    Thanks for your reply. The file and/or URL name is not the problem. The prefix is added in front of the file name once the PDF is opened – in the tab at the top of the screen. The peculiar thing is that it doesn’t do this for a PDF from a Word document, but does it for a PDF from a PowerPoint document. Also, this happens in Firefox, but not in Google Chrome or Internet Explorer, which I have tried since.
    The three words that are added as prefix come from when the site was originally added. The person that helped me get started in WordPress entered a description of the site (not the tagline), that is only relevant to some of the files, thinking that it wouldn’t show up anywhere. I can’t figure out how to get at this to change it or blank it out.
    Theses three words prefixing the file name are rather confusing when they don’t relate to a particular file. Also this site has both English and Spanish content, so when the file name is in Spanish and gets prefixed with English words, it is not really appropriate.

  • staff-ozmodiar · Staff ·

    Hi,

    Can you give me the URL of a post that is an example of the behavior that you are seeing?

  • Unknown's avatar
    michellemech · Member ·

    Here is an examples of a PDF of a PPT doc from my site:
    http://nereidadotorg.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/1-the-state-of-our-oceans-part-1-1305127.pdf

    Here is an example of a PDF of a Word doc:

    Click to access contents-the-state-of-our-oceans-and-the-impacts-of-plastic-debris-130528.pdf

  • staff-ozmodiar · Staff ·

    Hi,

    So, the issue is almost assuredly coming from the fact that there is a “title” field of some sort being exported from Power Point to the pdf when you are creating it.

    Here’s a screenshot of the downloaded pdf where I have opened “preferences”:

    You can see “plastic in the oceans” in the title field. Could you do the same thing for the original pdf file and see if the title field shows for you as well? It would not be possible for our system to modify a pdf, so I am fairly sure that you will find it as well.

  • Unknown's avatar
    michellemech · Member ·

    Thanks so much – you’re a genius! As you probably know, as it turns out “plastic in the oceans” originally came from the PPT document. It looks like it took the title from the document folder name. And that explains why this isn’t happening for the Word documents.
    So now I can change it in all the PPT documents and re-PDF them and reload them on WordPress – which will certainly be worth it to eradicate this problem.
    I really appreciate your help on this issue. Thanks again.

  • staff-ozmodiar · Staff ·

    Happy to help.

    Let me know if there is anything else I can do for you. Otherwise, thanks for using WordPress.com!

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