Extract pdf easily
Hello, and sorry if what I'm about to ask has already been resolved or announced somewhere.
I just realized that you can no longer extract pdf by dragging the reference out of Zotero (unless you select the pdf alone, which implies doing it one by one if you want several of them at once). We could do it before...
Anybody know if we can fix this?
I just realized that you can no longer extract pdf by dragging the reference out of Zotero (unless you select the pdf alone, which implies doing it one by one if you want several of them at once). We could do it before...
Anybody know if we can fix this?
If you want to select multiple PDFs, you can perform a search that matches only the PDFs — either using the search bar or with a saved search (e.g., set to Attachment File Type is PDF) — and then use Select All to select all the search matches.
This is not a false memory, I did that many times in recent years for my thesis and in the supervision of my students.
Anyway, if we can do more... it'll take longer.
https://github.com/zotero/zotero/blob/273194eaf3d39c3cd28b1d30a72493021b2bc0fa/chrome/content/zotero/xpcom/itemTreeView.js#L2608
https://github.com/zotero/zotero/blob/273194eaf3d39c3cd28b1d30a72493021b2bc0fa/chrome/content/zotero/xpcom/itemTreeView.js#L2626
And it's the same in Zotero 5.0:
https://github.com/zotero/zotero/blob/2effad4f6a9db1f86758ba77eaef1fa04be3e904/chrome/content/zotero/xpcom/itemTreeView.js#L2683
Dragging parent items doesn't totally work, because items can have more than one file attachment. But we could consider 1) only dragging the "best" child attachment file (the same one that we open on double-click) or 2) dragging all child attachment files, renaming any that are in conflict.