Zotero connector not showing option to save .pdf to Zotero. Report ID: 1480646245
Upgraded to Zotero 5.0 from Zotero 4 for Firefox yesterday. Installed connector for Firefox. When I click on a .pdf from a search in a library catalogue (that's a concrete and glass library not a Zotero one!). I no longer see an item offering to save to Zotero. I have to download the .pdf and then drag into Zotero manually.
(I also have posted about problems with syncing .pdfs with debug id: D1071960772, so they might be related.
Thanks for your help!
Leon.
(I also have posted about problems with syncing .pdfs with debug id: D1071960772, so they might be related.
Thanks for your help!
Leon.
I've removed and reinstalled the Firefox connector and still have the same issue. Running Firefox 54.0.1 (32-bit) - which it says is the latest.
https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/no_firefox_open_save_option
When I try to download from my University's library collection, the blue rectangular Zotero icon in the Firefox toolbar says: Save to Zotero (Web Page with snapshot, while the download icon in pdf view window just gives the options open in a viewer or download to a folder on disk.
If I try the same thing on a .pdf from a government website, the Zotero toolbar icon says 'Save to Zotero (pdf)' (yay!), and still the same 2 options from the pdf viewer window.
BTW: does this mean that the retrieval of meta data on the way thorough saving no longer happens? (I can do it manually once I've dragged the pdf in, but that was such a nice feature.
Oh, and in your post, Firefox now calls 'preferences' 'options' -- took me while to decipher that!
We'll see if we can reliably detect framed PDFs and offer to save them automatically. In the meantime, I've added this to the documentation Not currently, but we'll be automating that process in future versions.
Actually, most of the stuff from our library comes with extraneous stuff around the .pdf - publishers do like to let users know how wonderful they are in allowing us to view their journals!
Thanks for your help . I'll check out the Chrome extension when I get a chance later. Better do some real work now.
Cheers,
Leon.
Sorry to take so long to get back to this. After a bit of messing around, I think I've found one publisher that reliably throws an error if I try to use the download to Zotero button after doing the 'This Frame..' thing.
The journal is the 'Australasian Journal of Ecotoxicology' published by the Australasian Society for Ecotoxicology and provided to our library (University of Tasmania) by an outfit called 'Informit Health Collection'.
Not sure if that's enough info to help you in this.
Leon.