Download A-pdf Rename
Bethann Letchworth
A-PDF Rename is an utility program that lets you batch rename multiple PDF document based on content, metadata and file attributes(Size, Datetime) within PDF files. You can batch change or update multiple PDF files metadata (title, creator, producer, author, subject and keywords) as well as.
My workplace switched from Mac to PC, and I am shocked that it is not possible to rename files while they are open. This is a basic function that something like PDF Expert can do on a Mac. How is corporate America functioning with such outdated technology?
As noted elsewhere here, Windows does not allow an open file to be renamed. Sumatra seems to load the file into memory without keeping it "open" as far as Windows is concerned. Which allows it to be renamed while open (either through Sumatra or File Explorer), unlike other PDF viewers. The Windows Notepad app works the same way.
It's bizarre to me that this is so discussed and so misunderstood. Adobe Acrobat must read the file with a write lock (because it's likely to want to write back to the file). SumatraPDF must read the file without a write lock, so that it can rename the file if needed. There may be a few more hoops to jump through for Adobe Acrobat (e.g. ask the user to save any unsaved changes first) but really "Rename" could be implemented as a series of commands: save, close file, rename, reopen file.
I doubt it's a registry hack and I also doubt it's a rename interaction with the windows shell environment. It's just programming: opening files (with or without lock), and renaming files on the file system are just function calls from the program.
Sumatra PDF is obviously not loading the file the same way as Adobe Acrobat and other typical Windows applications. Sumatra PDF has the Rename function, but you can also rename the file in Windows File Explorer while the file is open in Sumatra PDF. Which you normally cannot do with an open file in Windows, Acrobat or otherwise. It is the exact behavior you see using the Windows Notepad application.
I'm trying to rename the titles of my PDF title in iBooks and also to add the name of the author. Can that be done, and if so, how? There is no longer an edit option on the top right hand side that previously allowed you to do that. Please advise.
Not sure if you found your answer yet as this post was a year ago, but I had the same issue. I just discovered, on my iPad at least, how to rename pdf files. I switched to list view, hit "select," checked the file I wanted to rename, then just tapped on the current name. Keyboard popped right up and I was able to edit as usual. UPDATE: iPhone 7+ worked, too. It looks like the file has to be downloaded from the cloud, edited, then uploaded to make the change permanent on your saved files, but I'm not 100% on that yet.
IF there was ever an option in iBooks to rename PDFs I must have missed it. As far as I can remember, iBooks always lacked that functionality. I'm quite certain it still does. My suggestion is to download Adobe Acrobat which is a free app. You can rename files, sign forms, fill in forms, organize into folders etc. it is much more robust that iBooks..
You can rename PDF's in iBooks as long as they are in the PDF category and you are viewing them in list view vs bookshelf. To do this, switch to list view, tap select, and then tap on the name of the PDF you want to change. -AJ
Thanks to AJ397, I just discovered that you can rename files in iBooks. Like I said, I gave up on iBooks years ago because it lacked that functionality and never bothered to see what it would do in subsequent upgrades. I apologize for not giving correct information and thanks to AJ397, I have learned something as well.
I can't rename books that I've imported to iBooks. I 'select' a listed title, place the curser within the title, make changes by adding chars, deleting chars, etc and see my changes. Then I leave the iBooks app, re-enter the app., see my new name, and 'low & behold' I see my renamed version revert to the name of the file (book) originally imported.
Renaming a file is not a feature of a PDF or reader that can be disabled, it's a feature of the file system. As long as you control the file system, you can prevent renaming the file, most commonly by disabling write access. Your document doesn't get to control someone else's file system. If you are handing out copies, they can be renamed by whoever has them.
The problem is extremely simple and can be reproduced anytime. I was trying to copy the title from the PDF and using that clipboard to rename the PDF but whenever I was trying to do that I was getting error like - "A file name can't contain any of the following characters: /:?"". I am pretty sure there are no such characters in the PDF title. Also, when I paste the text into some text editor(notepad,MS-word,google search bar) and then copy again the text to rename the PDF, it works.
I want to organize my pdf file downloaded from the internet. It is clear that many of them are ill-named. I want to extract the real title from the file. Here many of them are generated from Latex and I think from the compiled pdf we can find the \title keyword or something like that. I want then use this to rename the file.
I tried to do something similar in the past (and was asking advice here: Extracting text from PDF with Poppler (C++) ) but never really got it working. At the end of the day I realised that at least for my use, it was easier to manually rename the files.
I have many PDF files that I need to rename based on their visual content. Is there a PDF file viewer that will allow me to rename the file from within the viewer without having to go back to the file manager / command line?
It will not let me click on the region where the title of the project lies, where I expected to be able to change the name of the pdf before export. This is in the print tab. I am aware I can just rename the pdf after it is exported but I figured there had to be some way to do it on export.
I just downloaded 40+ chapters of a medical reference book onto my ipod touch. They were not available to download as a whole book so I had to download them one at a time. I put them all in a folder in ibooks. Instead of being labelled "chapter 1" or "chapter 2" etc, they are all labelled by the name of the book (that is, they all have the same label). This makes referencing them much harder. I want to be able to find certain chapters quickly. Can I rename these pdfs so they can be easier to reference? Thanks
In the PDF directory or folder you have your files, touch the "select" option on the top right. Then touch the name of the file you want to rename and the cursor will appear. Simply delete the garbled-up iBooks name and type the new file name. Finally, touch the aforementioned "select" option to save it.
It did not work. The application did not rename or move the files but it also did not fail. Would you be able to share the code to the right of your first assign activity? I tried your recommendation but I was receiving an error.
Sorry, I missed your last reply clarifying the assign activity issue. I see that you are writing the data to an excel file. I am not understanding how the code below actually renames the file. I am sorry.
StrPathFrom is the folder where the PDF originated. StrPathTo is the location where the file is being moved to. After adding the .pdf file extension, I no longer have an error. The files do not rename and do not move to the StrPathTo location.
You should use the Print PDF (multiple formats) node in Genius Loci package.
This is a variant of the Print PDF node. (Thanks to Konrad Sobon for making the original one.)
One of the input is the list of the final PDF names, so it is no longer necessary to rename PDF files afterward.
Orchid:
I can print sheets with Orchid.common.print.Actions, this works fine, except that the name of file is not what i want. I already have string name ( with path ) still it does rename the file.
Now some software has a built-in thumbnail viewer that allows you to have a small screenshot of each PDF file. For instance, the ScanSnap Organizer software has this capability and you can rename the PDF file from within the software. The problem I find is that the thumbnails generated by ScanSnap Organizer are just too small to be useful and the software is EXTREMELY slow when it comes to renaming PDF files. There is a big lag after each file is renamed. Granted, my PC is not the latest dual core PC running with a hefty amount of ram but there is no reason why renaming a PDF should be this slow. There are other software I tried that can rename a PDF file from within the application but the thumbnail/preview is either too small, or the software is just as slow and cumbersome as ScanSnap Organizer.
As you can see, all the files waiting to be renamed are populated inside a list box to the left and the thumbnails give an indication what kind of article this is and a preview panel to the right allows one to zoom in and out of the PDF. So it is really easy to zoom into the PDF and once the actual title is on the screen, you can then proceed to rename the PDF based on what you see on screen. Easy!
I am looking for a script and unfortunately I am not able to create this myself to (auto-)rename files as soon as they arrive in the finder inbox folder with the format YYYY_MM_DD_HH:MM_TITLE or YYYY_MM_DD_HH:MM_SUBJECT.
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