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PDFs saved with Zotero from JSTOR are corrupt. I get this message when I try to open them:
"File does not begin with '%PDF-'."
Files are all 142 bytes in size. I'm using Firefox 2.0, Windows XP, Zotero 1.0.0b2.r2
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"File does not begin with '%PDF-'."
Files are all 142 bytes in size. I'm using Firefox 2.0, Windows XP, Zotero 1.0.0b2.r2
Thank you for developing Zotero!
<html><body marginheight="0" marginwidth="0"><embed type="application/pdf" src="0.pdf" name="plugin" height="100%" width="100%"></body></html>
<html><body marginheight="0" marginwidth="0"><embed type="application/pdf" src="5.pdf" name="plugin" height="100%" width="100%"></body></html>
Win XP, FF2, Zotero 1.0.0b2.r2
This looks to me like some kind of 'envelope' for the PDF file rather than the PDF itself. As a matter of curiosity, I manually saved the PDF direct to this location and Zotero then retrieved it perfectly fine - but no way would I be bothered to do that every time (and why should I?).
Does anyone know a real fix for this please?
I am still having problems with saving pdf's as attachments.
With chemistry journals (especially on pubs.acs.org) supporting information is saved as a separate pdf (or 2 or 3) which can be accessed from an extended abstract page (example
I have tried 2 ways of saving pdfs, and both have had issues
1) navigating to the "attachments" tab of the parent entry, navigating to the pdf in my browser, and selecting add:take snapshot of current page.
2) navigating to the extended abstract and right clicking on the link to the pdf and selecting "save link as zotero snapshot"
The problem is intermittent, but approx 50% of the time when I try to access the snapshot I receive the "File does not begin with '%PDF-'." error. This happens regardless of the method of saving the pdf.
Have you tried saving the files by dragging and dropping rather than by using the snapshot feature?
For example, in your 1) method, once you have the pdf open in a browser window, can you "pick it up" in the Firefox address bar and then drag down to the Zotero entry where you'd like it to be attached, and drop there? That method works for me with files opened in the Firefox window by plug-ins.
I think there's just a fundamental difference between snapshots of web pages on the one hand and, on another hand, other documents that can only be viewed in Firefox with a plugin, like pdfs (Adobe reader plugin, etc.) and odts (OpenOffice.org plugin).
It's kind of confusing since, if the needed plug-ins are installed, all of the types of documents I've mentioned can appear in the browser window, yet it's not possible to take a snapshot unless the source is a web page.
It doesn't help matters that the Zotero highlighting and annotations toolbar appears whenever Zotero opens a file, even when using a plug-in which means that annotations and highlighting aren't functional (but this is a known issue: see Dan Stillman's comment on April 4th in this thread).
I wasn't aware urls could be dragged like that at all, let alone to be used to add attachment to Zotero. That should solve the problem.
Thanks for your suggestion.
Still with 1.0.0rc3.
Dragging the address bar to the Zotero library worked when it was suggested. Now, when I drag the address bar, I am again seeing the "file does not start with %pdf" error message. Clicking the link in the right pane works, though.
Since pubs.acs.org appears to access pdfs differently than other sites (?) is this going to continue to be a problem with pubs.acs.org articles. Is it something Zotero cannot address because of the discrepancies with pubs.acs.org?