New plugin: automatic export/import to BibDesk (Mac)

jawj
Hi all. Have just put up a link to a Firefox/Zotero plugin which implements very basic integration of Zotero with the Mac BibTeX reference manager BibDesk.

More details and the plugin itself from http://mackerron.com

Might be useful if this was added to the Extend/Plugins page?

All the best,
George
  • workfare
    Looks great! And it does something, opening bibdesk for a start ;-)
    But it does not add the selected entry.
    Any hints on how to make it work?
    I have the latest Firefox, Bibdesk and Zotero installed
  • Tjowens
    Thanks jawj,

    I added your plugin to the Extend/Plugins page.
  • jawj
    Hi workfare. I uploaded a new release this morning -- 1.0.1 -- which a couple of people have had more luck with. Is it this version which still isn't working for you?
  • dstillman
    George: Looks great. Haven't tried it, but from a quick glance at the code, I noticed a couple potential problems:

    1) It looks like it wouldn't send more than one item at once to BibDesk. You should allow for the ids array that gets passed to notify() to contain multiple items (using a for loop instead of "var item = items[0];").

    2) You should call the BibTeX translator by passing its GUID to setTranslator() rather than passing translator.getTranslators()[2], which isn't reliable.
  • jawj
    Dan: thanks a lot for those pointers. In relation to (2), I think I'd misunderstood the comments in Zotero's translate.js. Now fixed. In relation to (1), this was a shortcut that seemed to work (even multiple references are at least sometimes passed in individually?), but I've now done it the right way.

    I've also fixed the AppleScript for Tiger users, who were previously not getting a new BibDesk window in which to check and edit each exported reference.

    Hopefully this is the final bug-fix release: 1.0.2 is now available at http://mackerron.com, and you can browse the code at http://mackerron.com/svn/zot2bib/tags/releases/1.0.2

    Tjowens: in relation to the Extend/Plugins page (which currently has a link fixed to version 1.0.1), perhaps you could remove the direct link, so that people always see the instructions for installation and use as they download?

    Alternatively, if you're set on linking directly to the .xpi file, I've set up a redirect so that http://mackerron.com/zot2bib.xpi will always take you to the current release.

    All the best,
    George
  • workfare
    George -
    thank you, it was probably a Tiger issue, version 1.0.2 works like a charm.
    This really helps a lot!
    Best
    /
    Jens
  • Tjowens
    jawj: I have removed the direct link. So people can read your documentation instead of diving right in.
  • ulrich
    It doesn't work for me with the newest version ("requires additional plug-in") – anyone else?
  • jawj
    edited July 26, 2009
    Hi all. I've finally released version 2, which is available via http://mackerron.com/zot2bib/ and compatible with FF 3.5 and Zotero 2. Hope you find it useful.
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