Title of a Crystal Report PDF being displayed in a web browser

I have an application that previews a report in a web browser by saving the report to the web server and then opening a new tab/window pointing at the pdf that was just created. Right now it is displaying the server name(and path to the report on the server I believe) in the title bar instead of the report title. Is it possibel to set the report title somewhere in the code so the user sees whatever I want to show them instead of anythign to do with the server?
Thanks,
- Mike

Hi Mike,
This will get the name of the report and all of it's parts and add the .pdf to the file name:
string MyRptName = rpt.FileName.ToString();
MyRptName = MyRptName.Substring(MyRptName.LastIndexOf(@"\") + 1, (rpt.FileName.Length - 3) - (MyRptName.LastIndexOf(@"\") + 1)) + "pdf";
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