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Show FULL file name on tabs

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
May 18, 2023
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Is there a way to show the full file name on tabs?

I often need to have 5-10 tabs open, all file names need to start with the same address, and I need to frequently flip back and forth between them.

I can't see the latter half of the file names so waste too much time looking for the right tab

Michael Lande Publicis

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Include me in this request. I don't use tabs and often flip back and forth between PDFs to check 1) before changes, and 2) after changes. In the old days, we used to do this with 11x17 outputs for creative elements.

Now, on a Mac, I use a command-tilde to cycle through the open PDFs at the same zoom level. It's a quick way to see if anything jumps around. The new way Acrobat displays PDFs on screen is to always force the document title into a very narrow tab, even though PDFs are in their own window.

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CraneMcD

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Having this issue as well on a post from 2023 and now it's 2025 and still this has not been addressed?!? Will try reverting back to older version as one comment mentions below, however quite dissappointing that the latest version does not provide a resolution and instead perpetuates wasting peoples time and money.

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eM38678699x6sm

Participant

solution for this is to install Foxit PDF Reader

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Geoff361218823g2r

Participant

Update with latest Acrobat Reader 2023.008:

Go to the three-bar menu in the top left corner of the window
Click on Preferences near the bottom... (or Ctrl-K apparently)
Choose Documents from Categories on the left (second item)
Now the checkbox for displaying filenames in tabs is the fifth option from the top

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descar777

Participant

Mine is the fourth option from the top and it doesn't work. I'm sick of wasting time trying to solve this issue.

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Jon38321891d4vc

Participant

This is a really frustrating problem. Even mouseover with full filename would help (like firefox), but it doesn't seem to work.

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SKINNY2

Participant

Same issue, googled and this is the first link, without any solution 😞

Tried GPT and this is what was suggested and it solved the issue. Here are the steps

To display the filename instead of the document title on tabs in Adobe Acrobat, follow these steps:

Open Adobe Acrobat.
Go to Edit.
Select Preferences.
Choose Documents.
Under Open Settings, click Always Use Filename As Document Title.

This setting will ensure that the filename appears in the tab, making it easier to differentiate between multiple open documents with the same title but different names.

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jamie_bloomfield

Participant

Unfortunately, this does not resolve the issue.
The issue is that tabs are not wide enough to show the full name - whether that name is the Filename or the Document Title.

The steps given only help if you want to use the Filename rather than the "Document Title" (as specified in the Document Properties). Even if you change this you cannot read see what is written in the tabs because the tabs are too short.

In the past you could see the filename or document title by looking at the Applications' Title Bar. Adobe needs to give an option to show the Window Bar. It would also help to turn on the Menu bar as well. What they've done is create a semi-pseudo-full screen mode that you cannot exit.

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jamie_bloomfield

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Follow-up.

I discovered something. Under the File Menu, there is an option to "Disable New Acrobat".

I clicked that to revert back to the previous version that does not suffer these design issues.

Screenshot attached.

Note. If you want to subsequently change back to the 'current version' the 'Revert' back is found in the 'View' menu. Each change requires the restart of the application.