On Jun 23, 2009, at 10:22 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: > On 06/23/09 13:04, "Christiaan Hofman" <cmhof...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> On Jun 23, 2009, at 9:25 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: >> >>> On 06/23/09 11:48, "Sumit Narayan" <sumna...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Just a couple of feature request I thought I will push in for >>>> debate here: >>>> >>>> 1. When we add a new PDF to BD by drag-and-drop, we get a new >>>> window >>>> for entering the details. It would be nice to see BD automatically >>>> fill details such as Year, Address and Month if it detects a >>>> Booktitle >>>> that was already entered earlier. They don't change across >>>> publications anyway. >>> >>> It sounds like you should use the Crossref field, unless I >>> misunderstand >>> your request. >>> >> >> It is generally not possible to figure out any relevant information >> from the PDF. There is some stuff that tries to find a DOI, Pubmed >> ID, >> or related ID and downloads the information from PubMed, but that's >> about as far as it goes. The PDF attributes can in theory can contain >> info like author and title, but in practice just contain garbage, so >> it's useless. > > Quite true, although I've been getting some useful PDF attributes > lately > from online publishers. PDF has no specific Booktitle field, so I > assumed > the request was related to Crossref...which would fill in > year/booktitle/date automatically, although the Crossref field > itself has to > be entered manually. > >>> You've been able to do that for years, but I think the UI has moved >>> to the >>> main menu now. >>> >> >> The popup in the header >> is really non-standard, and moreover the header doesn't look good >> with >> the source list style. Moreover the connection between a header and >> some groups way down is really unclear. > > I wasn't criticizing this time :). In fact, I agree entirely; the > old UI > (which I borrowed from Apple's Xcode) was never very intuitive, > although it > was more obvious when there was only a single group type.
I wasn't assuming that either. It was more a reply to the original comment, and I wanted to give an explanation why this was changed. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
