save web pages and pdfs
hello,
with the new standalone version, I don't seem able anymore to save web pages nor to create or save pdfs to zotero. I have installed zotero connector, but firefox alwas tells me that it is an old add on type. don't know if this is linked to the problem.
thank you for your help!
with the new standalone version, I don't seem able anymore to save web pages nor to create or save pdfs to zotero. I have installed zotero connector, but firefox alwas tells me that it is an old add on type. don't know if this is linked to the problem.
thank you for your help!
As for saving webpages, you can simply do that by clicking on the Save to Zotero icon. For PDFs, you can do the same with the PDF opened in Firefox (or any other browser with Zotero support).
What's gone is the option to "Save to Zotero" when you're saving a PDF. That's no longer possible with the new extension framework for Firefox.
just a pity that one can't save pdfs directly to zotero anymore. is there a chance that it will change in the future?
I have also tried to set my pdf application option to using Firefox's built-in preview. In that case, when I click on the connector the pdf is saved as a journal article entry with no pdf attachment. Where did I go wrong?
I run Firefox 55.0.3 and Zotero connector 5.0.18
If you just save a random PDF (e.g., this one) that's not on a site recognized by a translator, you should see the PDF icon.
But dragging the pdf link directly to Zotero works (saves a copy of the file in the collection). That'll do for me.
Interestingly, when I first clicked on the pdf link, the embedded url was the direct url (the "real" link), and Zotero connector didn't seem to recognize that; the icon remained as save to zotero webpage with snapshot . After I clicked on the link the second time, the url turned into the dreadful lengthy Google link. It was until then that Zotero connector recognized it and changed its icon to pdf. Note that this was when Firefox was set to open pdf using Adobe Reader.
Note that you'll still want the metadata, either by using Retrieve Metadata from PDF in Zotero or by saving the journal item and then, if the PDF doesn't come along (which it won't in the case of "(DOI)", but will for most publisher sites and some results from Google Scholar) dragging the PDF onto that item.
We haven't done much testing with the Adobe Reader plugin (since both Firefox and Chrome have built-in PDF readers), so I can't really speak to that.
Or, to replicate what I did, Google attention on autopilot andrew leber. The pdf link will be the first search return.
You can still import the PDF by right-clicking on the Folder and selecting "Save to Zotero --> Save to Zotero (PDF)" -- you can actually do both and then drag the PDF to the metadata -- that way you don't have to rely on retrieve metadata, which, while it will probably work well here, might fail.
Now, if the connector can save DOI and PDF, albeit separately, it is too much to ask for them to be combined into one step? ;-) That would work effectively as the former "Save to Zotero" function when opening a PDF, wouldn't it?