Cannot open link from annotation

rmaylow
Hi, i got issues with my annotation.
Extract them goes well but the link to the pdf does not work when I need to go back where I found the citation.
Do I have to set the url link ?

Please help
  • Simon Cropper
    edited August 20, 2018
    [Comment moved from another thread — D.S.]

    Hello rmaylow, your problem does not sound like the issue I was having. Your mention of blue links and annotations suggest you are doing something else.

    Zotfile allows you to export a PDF to tablet, annotate it and import it back again. Otherwise I am not sure what you mean.

    Zotero also bundles the original PDF and the annotated PDF created by ZotFile as children under the main reference. These links are actually gray.

    see https://imgur.com/a/Jo135DN

    I would suggest you create a new post and actually spell out what you are trying to do, what you have tried and what you think is wrong.

    Good Luck Simon
  • Simon Cropper
    edited August 20, 2018
    Do you mean you can not open the original PDF or you want to return to the original place the PDF was downloaded?

    The original PDF and annotated PDF are listed as children under the reference (1in picture). The URL where the reference was acquired is stored in the URL field in the reference database entry (2 in picture).

    see https://imgur.com/a/Jo135DN
  • rmaylow
    Hi @SimonCropper

    I'm really sorry about what I meant maybe it wasnt clear enough (i'm french).
    Let me try to explain myself again ;

    I extracted annotations from a pdf, a file name extracted annotations was create. Everything is in there, notes and highlight with a blue url at the end of each of them.

    Issues is I can't open the pdf from my notes when I click on the blue reference.

    For an exemple with https://imgur.com/a/Jo135DN

    (Hao and Lee, 2004:491) in this case that reference should open the annoted pdf at page 491.

    In my case, it does nothing when I click on it.



  • Simon Cropper
    edited August 21, 2018
    Hi rmaylow,

    Now I understand :)

    Clicking on the hyperlinks in the notes section created/populated by ZotFile does not actually open the PDF let alone the PDF to the right page!

    I have tested my system and found the same thing! When clicking on the link it complained that I did not have the PDF reader setup right (see images). I then populated the missing about:config value to the PDF appropriate to my system -- that is Atril -- but the link still did not open. I then installed okular and tried again, but this did not work either.

    There does seem to be a bug here.

    https://imgur.com/a/xR4hLPI

    @adamsmith is this enough data to clarify the issue? It seems from the last image that the cross-reference is pointing to the Zotero collection in the default profile rather than the ZotFile collection.
  • adamsmith
    sorry if that wasn't clear: I understood what the issue was, I just don't have anything helpful to add. I think there is a bug with the ZotFile PDF links outside of Mac and IIRC Joscha is aware of it.
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