Dear aurimas,

thank you for your reply.

Think about an annual DVD where all editions of the past year are stored. These files are pdfs and are stored in a special file and folder structure e.g. /14/01/ct1401.pdf and /14/02/ct1402.pdf so on.
ct = http://www.heise.de/ct/alle_ausgaben.html

1. Copy the DVD to usb drive
I copy the folder structure to my portable usb drive into the folder /Documents/library/serverfolder/name-of-magazine/14/01/ct1401.pdf.
Then I start a portable web server.
At my usb-drive are also all portable apps, especially portable firefox ready to use. http://portableapps.com/

2. Import or link the files to the zotero library
I know there are two ways to import (pdf)files. Either via import file (and copy/duplicate) or via a link to a file (and no copy to library). In both cases it is possible to create an search-index.

In my way I use the link option to avoid duplicates and have the possibilty to start a portable webserver on my well known serverfolder structure.

3. Jump to articles / pages in the large pdf
With zotero I mark the articles by creating a journal article with the URL to my local webserver e.g. http://127.0.0.1:5678/serverfolder/file.pdf#page=12&pagemode=none

4. Refer the article to the full pdf
This link to the page of the article is not indexed and cannot be found by the search - so I need to refer the journal article to the full pdf of the edition.


Wishes for comfortable iPad users
Because I am a comfortable iPad user, I want to have access to my library via browser and capture new webpages into zetero. The best idea in my opinion is this:
http://eric-blue.com/2011/04/03/firefox-scrapbook-hacks-viewing-and-saving-webpages-from-anywhere/comment-page-1/

O.K. there are the Zotero Bookmarklet for supported pages, but nothing for random webpages. https://www.zotero.org/downloadbookmarklet

That´s my way. Is this way the easiest or do better ways exist?

Nice greetings

nikolo

3. Jump to articles / pages in the large pdf
With zotero I mark the articles by creating a journal article with the URL to my local webserver e.g. http://127.0.0.1:5678/serverfolder/file.pdf#page=12&pagemode=none

With ZotFile installed you can also attach links to URI in the form zotero://open-pdf/<libraryID>_<itemKey>/<page>, which would reduce reliance on running a server. Though these don't sync AFAIK.

This link to the page of the article is not indexed and cannot be found by the search - so I need to refer the journal article to the full pdf of the edition.

So basically, even if Zotero indexed files when you add a link via URI (which it wouldn't for a number of reasons), you would need it to index _only_ a particular section of the PDF (otherwise, you would get hits for all articles in the issue/edition). Why not just split the PDF into separate articles instead? It's more work, but that's the only way that I can think of making indexing working correctly (all of the methods you describe above would have the same issue).

afaik, libraryID is always 0 for "My Library"
"Generate report" displays the same _ combo as part of the URL.