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PDF File Name Issue, Fixing Cryptic File Names

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Have you ever found yourself trying to make sense of PDF files with names that resemble a cryptic code more than anything meaningful? You’re not alone.

A recent encounter with a client highlighted a common frustration many face: PDFs downloaded from email attachments that retain long, random strings of alphanumeric characters as their titles, even after being renamed.

This article covers this common PDF document saving issue and provides a streamlined solution to save PDF document’s with their actual titles.

 

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Fix Opening Multiple PDF’s in Adobe Reader

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There appears to be an unresolved bug (as of writing this article) for users using Windows 10 and the free Adobe Reader in which only one PDF can be opened at a time.

Users can open the first PDF normally. However, once the Adobe Reader application is open a second PDF can not be opened. Oddly enough, double clicking on the PDF will add the PDF the to Recent Files within Windows File Explorer but it does not create a new tab or window within the Adobe Reader application.

This article provides a solution to the issue where you can not open multiple PDF’s within Adobe Reader.

 

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Free Google Shared Drive Theme Photoshop Template

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This article will provide you with instructions and a free Adobe Photoshop template for correctly creating a Google Shared Drive Theme image.

 

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Best Adobe PDF Reader Alternative

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If you’ve reached this article it (more likely than not) means you dislike Adobe PDF Reader and are seeking an alternative PDF reader for your Windows based PC.

I completely agree, Adobe Reader is bulky, slows down my PC and their updates (if you are not careful) can be accompanied by undesired AdWare. Those reasons are why I haven’t used Adobe PDF Reader for years.

Luckily we have a simple PDF reader alternative by just using our Brave internet browser to open PDFs. This article will show you how to setup Brave to automatically open your PDFs and make it your Default PDF Reader.

 

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Remove Dashes from Save for Web in Photoshop

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I frequently use Adobe Photoshop to enhance and compress my web related images. When using the “Save for Web & Devices” feature it automagically replaces any spaces, within the filename, with a dash for Unix compatibility purposes. This is not always necessary, so in this article I will show you how to disable the automatic replacement of spaces with dashes when using Save for Web in Photoshop.

Another negative result of this automatic insertion of dashes in place of spaces is when uploading images to WordPress. WordPress pulls the filename and inserts it into the Title field for the uploaded image. For search engine optimization purposes this is okay, but the dashes make it look unsightly when you hover your mouse over the image on the frontend. I then have to manually remove those dashes from the image title and save the changes. Turning the insertion of dashes feature off when using the Save for Web & Devices feature in Photoshop would prevent these additional steps. So lets get into doing so.

 

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How to Open WebP Images in Adobe Photoshop

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Opening .WebP files within older versions of Adobe Photoshop is not native. Meaning you will need a way to instruct Adobe Photoshop on handling such an image file. This article will show you a quick and easy way of doing so. Note that this should work for the following versions of Adobe Photoshop: 7.0, CS2, CS3, CS4, CS5 and CS6.

 

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