[ID CS3 (Win)] - where InDesign stores my name of PDF file?

Have you experience this before? You have a document (let's call it "MyDoc.indd") and you want to use as a base for a new document ("NewDoc.indd").

If you open MyDoc, save as "NewDoc. You are now working on NewDoc.

Some time later, you go to NewDoc export to PDF and remembers MyDoc and recommends as file name for the PDF file. If you change the file name for your PDF file, and then save your INDD file, it will now remember the new name as your default PDF name.

But what happens if you want to change this beforehand, for example: you are not ready to export the file, but you want to make sure that when you (or someone else does) that they use the correct file name?

-Tom

PS: I noticed that this behavior is different on a Mac and a PC.

If you use the default name for your PDF, which is the same as the .indd file name no export name is stored in the data file. However, if you export and change the name, THEN SAVE THE FILE, exported new name will be written in the data file and will not survive another record just one save slot, and the only way to remove it is to export to .idml/.inx.

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