Upgrade StorageHave HTML? links into Zotero
Ok, I've gotten spoiled rotten in about a week. But I now want even MORE POWER....
In PDF files I have been putting links to other pdf files. Particularly if the link is to another PDF file that I have.
To get Acrobat reader to include a tool to link inside Zotero is probably impossible. But how about a slight work around?
What I'd like Zoterro to do is create a directory that has a list of hooks to inside Zotero itself.
Then within Acrobat reader I could use the link tool to select one of the Zotero "link files" instead of just linking to the PDF file directly.
I'm just guessing that the hooks could be HTML files. So the filename could be something like:
Temple - Heron Triangles - 2010.html
Using the Acrobat link tool is the reason that I didn't want to put pdf files themselves into Zotero.
In fact it would be nice to have two such directories of links. One for an entry point into Zotero, and another which opens an attached files. That way inside Acrobat reader I would have an option as to how I wanted to work.
In PDF files I have been putting links to other pdf files. Particularly if the link is to another PDF file that I have.
To get Acrobat reader to include a tool to link inside Zotero is probably impossible. But how about a slight work around?
What I'd like Zoterro to do is create a directory that has a list of hooks to inside Zotero itself.
Then within Acrobat reader I could use the link tool to select one of the Zotero "link files" instead of just linking to the PDF file directly.
I'm just guessing that the hooks could be HTML files. So the filename could be something like:
Temple - Heron Triangles - 2010.html
Using the Acrobat link tool is the reason that I didn't want to put pdf files themselves into Zotero.
In fact it would be nice to have two such directories of links. One for an entry point into Zotero, and another which opens an attached files. That way inside Acrobat reader I would have an option as to how I wanted to work.
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Let me also be a bit more illustrative with a simple example at this point.
I have a Zotero item about Temple's paper titled 'Heron Triangles" which was published in 2010. I'd like Zotero to create a subdirectory in its database named "links".
XXX
...Zotero
......links
.........Temple - Heron Triangles - 2010.html
Now I put a link in my pdf file to "Temple - Heron Triangles - 2010.html". When I click on the pdf link within Acobat reader, then I open up the Temple item in Zotero. If Zotero is already open, then the Temple item gets focus.
But it doesn't seem that if I'm reading a pdf file in Acrobat reader (the REAL reader, not the browser plug in..) that I could use "zotero://select links." Acrobat reader wants me to make a selection from a list of computer files. I don't get to insert html into Acrobat's links.
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I talking about making link "comments" within Acrobat reader. So I'm reading the pdf file, highlighting text, making comments, linking to other documents.
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Probably better to think of "Temple - Heron Triangles - 2010.html" as a shortcut to the "Temple - Heron Triangles - 2010.pdf" file.
Mixed ideas with "Probably better to think of "Temple - Heron Triangles - 2010.html" as a shortcut to the "Temple - Heron Triangles - 2010.pdf" file."
The shortcut notion is a directory of links to PDF files. Not hooks in Zotero itself.
If would be great if Adobe added html type link to its markup capabilities, but Adobe isn't going to do it to make Zotero work better.
I can certainly understand that you don't want to do something clumsy that you'd have to undo if Adobe changed the features of its reader.
Thanks for the discussion!
Max