I use Foxit to read and highlight research papers because of the annotation features. For all other PDFs, I use Okular because of the faster startup time.
Same here, as long as zotero is not building its own, it would be extremely usefull for those use using utopia or readcube for scientific literature but not all pdf's
Here's a simple solution that has been working for me for a while.
I want to open pdf files with program A unless I'm double-clicking an item in the Zotero application, in which case I want to open it with some other program B.
I changed my OS settings so the default program for opening pdf files is the shell script shown below. I keep my Zotero files in the folder "zotero-data" and use playonlinux to launch Foxit Reader for my Zotero pdf files because Foxit has nice highlighting and annotation features.
#!/bin/bash
if [[ "$1" == */zotero-data/storage/* ]] then f="z:${1//\//\\}" /usr/share/playonlinux/playonlinux --run "Foxit Reader" "$f" else evince "$1" fi
Bump! This feature would be really useful to be configurable for me as a user. I'm using Mac and for all scientific papers, there is this program "Skim" that is excellent for annotation and so on. Otherwise, I'm using the builtin "Preview" program for its simplicity.
So: _please_ add this feature; as a suggestion to the Preferences menu!
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I use Foxit to read and highlight research papers because of the annotation features. For all other PDFs, I use Okular because of the faster startup time.
I want to open pdf files with program A unless I'm double-clicking an item in the Zotero application, in which case I want to open it with some other program B.
I changed my OS settings so the default program for opening pdf files is the shell script shown below. I keep my Zotero files in the folder "zotero-data" and use playonlinux to launch Foxit Reader for my Zotero pdf files because Foxit has nice highlighting and annotation features.
So: _please_ add this feature; as a suggestion to the Preferences menu!