Portfolio

PDF Title Metadata

PDF Title Metadata

This directory contains PDF files for the portfolio site. To ensure browser tabs display “David Weinflash” as the title when PDFs are opened directly, the PDF metadata needs to be updated.

Updating PDF Titles

Install exiftool

brew install exiftool

Update all PDFs in this directory

cd /Users/dweinflash/Developer/dweinflash.github.io/assets/pdf
exiftool -overwrite_original -Title="David Weinflash" *.pdf

Update a single PDF

exiftool -overwrite_original -Title="David Weinflash" filename.pdf

What this does

  • Sets the internal PDF title metadata to “David Weinflash”
  • This title appears in the browser tab when the PDF is opened directly
  • The -overwrite_original flag prevents creating .pdf_original backup files

When to use this

Run this command whenever you add new PDFs to this directory to ensure consistent browser tab titles.