How to set title name of the pdf. While viewing the Document(New Tab)

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How can we change the title name of the pdf. While viewing the Document

I didnt use any controller are modal, I just pass the url in href tag, But I want to change the title name

<a target="_blank" @if($docDet[$csr['docid']]['docext'] == 'pdf') href="{{url($csr['docpath'])}}" @else href="{{url(ADMIN.'/downloaddoc/'.$docDet[$csr['docid']]['dockey'])}}" @endif class="icon-btn blue-btn" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom" title="" data-original-title="View"><i class="fa fa-eye"></i></a>

As the Browser itself is parses the PDF, you cannot modify the page title directly. See [this post](https://stackoverflow.com/a/27653004/7008354). (updated to better explanation) — Tobias F., Jun 07 '18 at 09:28
If you are no using a library to create / modify the PDF; then [this post](https://stackoverflow.com/a/44644580/7008354) might be what you want to do. — Tobias F., Jun 07 '18 at 09:42
Yeah sir I understand that, I just view the pdf, I dont want user to create or edit pdf, Instead of that I just want to rename the page title — Siva Ganesh, Jun 07 '18 at 09:44
If you don't want to modify the pdf then it is not possible to change the title displayed in the Browser. — Tobias F., Jun 07 '18 at 09:57

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 05 '20 at 18:52

The problem is that to set the title, the title must set into the pdf, but there is a workaround ( see explanation )

Explanation:

The page with target "_blank" attribute, set the file names base on the last part of the url. So if the url is my.site/32/55 , the html title is 55.

The workaround is to set the file name as the last part of the url

1) Web.php

This is the most important part. To give the page the pdf title, set

Route::get('/pdfSee/{fileID}/{htmlTitle}', 'FileController@viewInTheBrowser')->name('file.see');

2) Controller

public function viewInTheBrowser(File $file){
$basePath = 'public/myFolder/'; 
        return  response()->download(storage_path("app/".$this->basePath. $file->file_system_path), $file->file_name, [], 'inline');
    }

3) View

<a href="{{ URL::route('file.see', [$file, $file->file_name]) }}" target="_blank"> Download </a>

As you can see, we pass in the route file.see the actual file name as last param, so wen the html page is open, it takes the last param ( the file name ) as html page title

How to set title name of the pdf. While viewing the Document(New Tab)

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