Export with PDF
Hey all,
I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction for improving zotero. I would be willing to write a plugin. Do I have to modify the XPI archive for zotero for the Firefox plugin, or is there some other scheme?
Here's what I want to do. I read many, many papers. I also like to share them with colleagues and other researchers. The problem though is that not necessarily everyone has access to the same papers, so just exporting a bibliography is kind of next to useless. However, with the "automatically download PDF" mode, there's some potential here.
What I would like to do is write an extension, plugin, or otherwise hack away at zotero such that I have an option of selecting either to (1) export 'collections' in libraries in a format that consists of a tar.gz or zip file of both bibliographies and PDF files; (2) selective ability to create archives of that same style by selecting multiple references within a particular collection.
Does anyone have any suggestions for how to do this? Any documents in particular that I should read?
Thank you :-)
- Bryan
http://heybryan.org/
I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction for improving zotero. I would be willing to write a plugin. Do I have to modify the XPI archive for zotero for the Firefox plugin, or is there some other scheme?
Here's what I want to do. I read many, many papers. I also like to share them with colleagues and other researchers. The problem though is that not necessarily everyone has access to the same papers, so just exporting a bibliography is kind of next to useless. However, with the "automatically download PDF" mode, there's some potential here.
What I would like to do is write an extension, plugin, or otherwise hack away at zotero such that I have an option of selecting either to (1) export 'collections' in libraries in a format that consists of a tar.gz or zip file of both bibliographies and PDF files; (2) selective ability to create archives of that same style by selecting multiple references within a particular collection.
Does anyone have any suggestions for how to do this? Any documents in particular that I should read?
Thank you :-)
- Bryan
http://heybryan.org/
Select the items you wish to export in the center column. Right click and select "Export Selected Items..."
If you export to RDF and select Export Files, all your items, complete with PDFs, will be exported as an RDF file and an accompanying directory containing all the associated files. If you wanted to ZIP or TAR it from there, that's easy enough to do through the OS.
Or perhaps you mean something different by "bibliographies"? Exporting the formatted citations to a text file is something you can do separately. If you wanted to write a plugin that would automate some of these features, I'm sure it would be quite straight-forward. I'm afraid I'm not involved enough in the technical end of things to point you in the right direction, but if it's clear what you have in mind, I'm sure someone will come along who can.
- Bryan
http://heybryan.org/
As this thread describes, exporting pdfs works fine. As multiple other threads describe, using a saved search for pdfs in your OS can easily display them in one folder. Finally, using the Zotfile plugin, you can also get various forms of file organization outside of Zotero's folder structure.
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/18737/zotfile-reader-zotero-plugin-to-work-with-tablet-ipad-android-tablets-etc/
I tried what to do what ahoward suggested:
"Select the items you wish to export in the center column. Right click and select "Export Selected Items..." "
but what exactly am I supposed to right-click on (ctrl+left click, since I'm on a mac) to get to the Export Selected Items option?
Could I be missing something obvious or crucial here?