Feature request: "Open PDF in default reader" option

jculi
The integrated pdf viewer has limited features, for example panning is not possible. It would be useful to allow users to easily open pdfs in their preferred application, by adding an "Open PDF in default reader" option in the contextual menu when right-click in an attachment file.

Thank you
  • poettli
    edited August 22, 2022
    You can choose the PDF viewer in the general pane of the Zotero preferences.

    @emilianoeheyns has developed an add-on to add this option to the right-click menu

    Please refer to this thread.
  • tim820
    This add-on adds right click PDF opening in external PDF viewer.
    https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-open-pdf
  • jculi
    Thank you very much for the info. The recommended add-on works great and it is exactly what I had in mind.
    For general use, I prefer the integrated PDF viewer, since it gives access to the awesome new PDF annotation capabilities. Thus, to change the default viewer in Zotero preferences is not an ideal solution for me. However, sometimes I need to open a PDF at a high magnification to examine details in figures and for this use case, I miss the possibility of panning (hand tool) in the integrated PDF viewer.
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