How to PDF w/ Zotero
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Question: How do i import PDFs and save them in Zotero?
I down loaded and installed the required mod but I cant seem to open a PDF or save a PDF to Zotero. In short, how do I use Zotero and PDFs?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Question: How do i import PDFs and save them in Zotero?
I down loaded and installed the required mod but I cant seem to open a PDF or save a PDF to Zotero. In short, how do I use Zotero and PDFs?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
for a file on your computer...
- Click on the new item button (green cross) and select "store copy of file".
- Right click on an item in Zotero and select Add attachment -> store copy of file
- Drag a file into Zotero from where it is stored on your computer
for a file online...
- Open the PDF in Firefox and click on the "create new item from current page" button (to the right of the green cross).
- Open the PDF and right click on an existing item, selecting: add attachment -> attach snapshot of current page.
- Enable "Automatically attach associated PDFs ..." in the general pane of preferences, and then save an item to Zotero from a journal's website using the address bar button - the PDF will automatically be attached.
N.B. Zotero opens PDFs in the same way as Firefox does, so if you can't open a PDF within in Firefox you may need to install a plugin, such as the one included with Adobe Reader or the PDF X-Change viewer.Exactly what i was looking for!
(I had looked at "http://www.zotero.org/support/retrieve_pdf_metadata" but I needed a bit more guidance)
A. In Zotero v. 1, when you where looking at an URL that was a PDF, if you hit the "Create New Items from Current Page", you would get a new item with the PDF attached.
B. In Zotero v. 2, when you do the same, you only get the the PDF, with no item attached. I found this frustrating. My initial workaround was to save the PDF to my desktop, create a new item, and then attach the PDF to the new item. It worked, but a whole bunch of extra steps that were not needed in v.1.
C. It seems the new way of working with Zotero v.2 is to instead create a New Item, and then "Attach a Snapshot of the Page" under the "New Child Attachment" menu. This saves a copy of the PDF with the new item. This accomplishes the same as in A above, but with an extra step involved - but much less frustrating than first saving the PDF to your desktop.
Can a Zotero guru confirm this is the best way of quickly saving web-based PDFs, if you want it embedded in an item?