incompatible PDF format

pensak
If you go to http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/13/1/9.html and look at the article, you have the option of saving it as a PDF on your machine. The PDF looks OK on a Mac, it has the right icon and it opens fine with Acrobat or Preview. Zotero however does not recognize it as a PDF and will not even give you the opportunity to look for metadata. This problem shows up in anything you generate from that website. The workaround is to open the file in Acrobat first and then do a save as to another name. This file comes out a slightly different size and Zotero handles it just fine.
  • James
    It's not the pdf format; there is no direct link to the pdf from that page. The website requires a translator for Zotero.

    http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/creating_translators_for_sites
  • James
    edited February 16, 2010
    I don't have the time to do a translator for that website for you, but I can see from the code that it contains all the metadata required for a scraper.

    Also you can find the pdfs for the articles on that site by deleting the '.html' and then adding '/number.pdf' where the number is the same as the one before the '.html'. For example, for the article at:
    http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/13/1/9.html
    the pdf can be found here:
    http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/13/1/9/9.pdf

    Select the icon to the left of the address bar in Firefox and you can drag it straight into Zotero.
  • pensak
    I probably did not phrase my open remarks very well. I apologize. I did in fact get the 9.pdf file which acts just fine on my Mac (opens with Acrobat and Preview). When I drag it into zotero, zotero does not recognize it as a pdf. Passing it through Acrobat fixes "something" as the file comes out a slightly different size. Then zotero is happy with it.
  • James
    edited February 16, 2010
    Right, sorry for the misunderstanding.

    In that case, I can't reproduce your problem. When I try, Zotero recognises the file without any problem whether I download it from the website and then drag the file into Zotero or whether I just drag the direct link I gave above directly into Zotero.

    I am using Windows Vista.
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