labels PDF document a microsoft word document

Thanks for your bug report. I could imagine "Microsoft Window ..." being the title of the document. Can you attach such a document?

I believe I have found the document in question at <a href="http://www.cs.arizona.edu/classes/cs127a/spring07/HW/hw8-ElevatorBonanza.pdf">this address</a>. I have seen this before actually, and never really thought much of it. Maybe something to do with an odd PDF format? Will check bugzilla tomorrow for a dupe and forward it upstream if there isn't one unless I am directed to do otherwise before then. I will get any changes to this report via email.

I am currently checking whether this effects the current development version of evince or if its just the 6.10(0.5.2) and 7.04(0.8.0)versions. Unfortunately I am currently working with a P2 350Mhz w/224MB ram (my main comp died) so compiles take forever. I will be more productive when I get my new laptop, promise ;)

Like I said, I don't think it's big deal, but a surprising number of pdf documents do something similar. As an example:

http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/DownloadableAssets/AMD_ATI_Fact_Sheet.pdf

http://www.ubuntulive.com/ubuntu/prospectus.pdf

I think maybe they don't have an internal field for document name or title filled out so it gets replaced with the originating file or something?

My version of Evince is now showing the whole title instead of having "..." appended to it everywhere except on the window list.

After examining the evince source code and generating a few test pdf files I don't think that this is a bug in evince at all. The program just reports the internal document title given to it by the pdf file itself. Documents generated by document converters or from software not designed to properly generate pdf files may incorrectly set the original file name as the pdf document title or somthing. Note that the internal document title is not necessarily the same as the filename. It is up to the person that creates the file or the file conversion software to set the correct document title and not up to the evince developers to figure out what they mean.

Ill give the specifics,
this code in evince (ev-window-title.c) sets the window title we see:
new_title = g_strdup_printf ("%s (%s)", *title, filename)
as you can see the format is "internal doc title (real filename)"

not a bug then