Print to PDF loses the file name?

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Print to PDF loses the file name?

Has anyone else experienced losing the file name when printing to PDF utilizing the built-in MacOS feature? It has worked fine for years until I upgraded to Ventura. Now every time I print to PDF it loses the original document name and auto populates with "untitled" in the file name input field. Please help as I print an enormous amount of documents to PDF and typing or re-entering the name takes an extra step and time that decreases productivity. Thanks in advance!

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Posted on Jan 15, 2023 07:10 PM

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Jan 16, 2023 09:31 AM in response to John Blanchard1

It happens with all my software applications (Word, Excel, Safari, Edge, Etc...). I have a co-worker that has the exact same issue when they upgraded. It appears to be systemic on both of our machines.

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Jan 16, 2023 10:55 AM in response to Mattjennie1

Thank you for the screen shot, and sorry I am not able to reproduce it. Could it have anything to do with OneDrive? Does it still happen if you try to save it to ~/Documents or ~/Desktop? If that is even a valid test with OneDrive installed?

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Jan 17, 2023 10:59 AM in response to John Blanchard1

It appears that no matter where I open the document from or save it to, it still loses the original file name. Very puzzling. I upgraded a second macbook pro (2019) just yesterday and it does not lose the file name. Same software installed, same apps (OneDrive included), but different results. 2 of 3 machines exhibit the same results.

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Jan 17, 2023 02:26 PM in response to Mattjennie1

Very odd indeed. I am guessing that the normal "path" to fill out the name/title is to get the name of the document window, and then fall back to "Untitled" if getting the name of the window fails. If true, why could getting the name of the window be failing? I have not been able to reproduce this yet with any of my apps, though I don't have OneDrive installed - which doesn't seem to be the cause, based on your last post. Still trying…

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Jan 16, 2023 08:49 AM in response to Mattjennie1

What application are you using? Does this occur in all apps? I don't see this with a few simple tests in TextEdit, Safari, Pages, and Word.

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