On Nov 15, 2007, at 1:58 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > On 15 Nov 2007, at 10:51 PM, Hendrik wrote: > >>>> >>>> >>>> BTW, clicking on a PDF link in Google Scholar (and presumably >>>> elsewhere) loads it quite nicely in the window, but then tells me >>>> that >>>> it "Failed to read HTML string from document." In Leopard, >>>> there's a >>>> nice floaty window that allows you to open it in Preview, from >>>> which >>>> you can drag it back into BibDesk... but it would be nice to have >>>> an >>>> option to attach the PDF as a local-url when it's imported. >>>> >>>> -A >>> >>> That would be impossible. there is no item to link the PDF to. Items >>> that are not imported yet are not editable (and that won't change). >>> >> How about a different solution: When displaying a PDF in the BibDesk >> window, allow the user to associate and auto-file the pdf with one of >> the most recently imported items. So have a drop down list somewhere >> with for example the last 5 imported items (listed using for example >> the truncated title) that the current pdf can be saved to. Being able >> to quickly auto-file this way would be oh so awesome. >> >> Hendrik > > And what if you don't have autofile turned on? Note that this PDF is > not yet inserted on your system, it may be somewhere in a temporary > location but that is not accessible to us. So you first have to > download it anyway.
I don't know exactly how the scraper works (whether it just grabs the BibTeX or whether it first parses the HTML page); any way to grab the underlying link that the title of the article links to and put it in the "URL" field? That would make it easier to go back and grab the article PDF later. If this makes the code too difficult, this could probably be AppleScripted ex post... -AHM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
