diff --git a/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/transform/OOoContentTransformerHelper.java b/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/transform/OOoContentTransformerHelper.java
index 75df736e6e..5ad498741b 100644
--- a/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/transform/OOoContentTransformerHelper.java
+++ b/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/transform/OOoContentTransformerHelper.java
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
 import java.io.Reader;
 import java.io.Writer;
+import java.util.Date;
 
 import net.sf.jooreports.converter.DocumentFamily;
 import net.sf.jooreports.converter.DocumentFormat;
@@ -36,11 +37,7 @@ import net.sf.jooreports.openoffice.connection.OpenOfficeException;
 
 import org.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException;
 import org.alfresco.repo.content.MimetypeMap;
-import org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentIOException;
-import org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentReader;
-import org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentWriter;
-import org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.MimetypeService;
-import org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.TransformationOptions;
+import org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.*;
 import org.alfresco.util.TempFileProvider;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.pdfbox.exceptions.COSVisitorException;
@@ -334,13 +331,23 @@ public abstract class OOoContentTransformerHelper extends ContentTransformerHelp
                     "   writer: " + writer);
         }
 
+        // MNT-11279 fix. Because of the creating temp files for transformations the document's header with file name field
+        // could be changed to temporary file's name.
+        // Get the original file name which was on upload.
+        String origFileName = getOriginalFileName(options);
+        // Create a temp folder and put source and target files into it. (i.e. tempFromFile and tempToFile will be placed
+        // into such folder)
+        File tempSubfolder = new File(TempFileProvider.getTempDir() + File.separator +
+                                              origFileName + "-" + getTempFilePrefix() + "-"
+                                              + getTempFilePrefix() + "-" + new Date().getTime());
+        tempSubfolder.mkdir();
+
         // create temporary files to convert from and to
-        File tempFromFile = TempFileProvider.createTempFile(
-                getTempFilePrefix()+"-source-",
-                "." + sourceExtension);
+        // The source file should have the name which was on upload
+        File tempFromFile = new File(tempSubfolder, origFileName );
         File tempToFile = TempFileProvider.createTempFile(
-                getTempFilePrefix()+"-target-",
-                "." + targetExtension);
+                origFileName + "-" + getTempFilePrefix()+"-target-",
+                "." + targetExtension, tempSubfolder);
         
         // There is a bug (reported in ALF-219) whereby JooConverter (the Alfresco Community Edition's 3rd party
         // OpenOffice connector library) struggles to handle zero-size files being transformed to pdf.
@@ -376,6 +383,11 @@ public abstract class OOoContentTransformerHelper extends ContentTransformerHelp
                         "   to file: " + tempToFile,
                         e);
             }
+            catch (Throwable ee)
+            {
+                produceEmptyPdfFile(tempToFile);
+                getLogger().error("Convertation problem", ee);
+            }
         }
 
         if (getLogger().isDebugEnabled())
@@ -396,7 +408,12 @@ public abstract class OOoContentTransformerHelper extends ContentTransformerHelp
             getLogger().debug("transformation successful");
         }
     }
-    
+
+    private String getOriginalFileName(TransformationOptions options)
+    {
+        return transformerDebug == null ? null : transformerDebug.getFileName(options, true, -1);
+    }
+
     private boolean temporaryMsFile(TransformationOptions options)
     {
         String fileName = transformerDebug == null ? null : transformerDebug.getFileName(options, true, -1);
diff --git a/source/test-java/org/alfresco/repo/content/transform/OpenOfficeContentTransformerTest.java b/source/test-java/org/alfresco/repo/content/transform/OpenOfficeContentTransformerTest.java
index 31f113c331..58e01ec3c9 100644
--- a/source/test-java/org/alfresco/repo/content/transform/OpenOfficeContentTransformerTest.java
+++ b/source/test-java/org/alfresco/repo/content/transform/OpenOfficeContentTransformerTest.java
@@ -134,6 +134,47 @@ public class OpenOfficeContentTransformerTest extends AbstractContentTransformer
         transformer.transform(reader, writer);
     }
     
+    /**
+     * MNT-11279. Transform docx document that contains head with value "documentName" to pdf.
+     * 
+     */
+    public void testDocxFieldToPdf()
+    {
+        if (!worker.isAvailable())
+        {
+            // no connection
+            return;
+        }
+        URL docxUrl = this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("misc/Test-Header-Office-2010.docx");
+        assertNotNull("URL was unexpectedly null", docxUrl);
+
+        File docxSourceFile = new File(docxUrl.getFile());
+        assertTrue("Test file does not exist.", docxSourceFile.exists());
+        
+        File pdfTargetFile = TempFileProvider.createTempFile(getName() + "-target-", ".pdf");
+        
+        ContentReader reader = new FileContentReader(docxSourceFile);
+        reader.setMimetype(MimetypeMap.MIMETYPE_WORD);
+        ContentWriter writer = new FileContentWriter(pdfTargetFile);
+        writer.setMimetype(MimetypeMap.MIMETYPE_PDF);
+        
+        transformer.transform(reader, writer);
+        
+        //Transform to txt for checking content
+        reader = new FileContentReader(pdfTargetFile);
+        reader.setMimetype(MimetypeMap.MIMETYPE_PDF);
+        
+        File txtTargetFile = TempFileProvider.createTempFile(getName() + "-target-", ".txt");
+        
+        writer = new FileContentWriter(txtTargetFile);
+        writer.setMimetype(MimetypeMap.MIMETYPE_TEXT_PLAIN);
+        
+        transformer.transform(reader, writer);
+        
+        String txtContent = writer.getReader().getContentString();
+        assertTrue("Transformed document must contains real document name", txtContent.contains("Document File Name: Test-Header-Office-2010Test-Header-Office-2010"));    
+    }
+    
     /**
      * Some transformations fail intermittently within OOo on our test server.
      * Rather than exclude these transformations from product code, where they
diff --git a/source/test-resources/misc/Test-Header-Office-2010.docx b/source/test-resources/misc/Test-Header-Office-2010.docx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dd9ebed78e
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