send attached PDF by email

chaveroux
Hi,
just a question. Is there a way to share a PDF by email directly from my library?
Thanks a lot for your help
best
  • dstillman
    You can't start an email from Zotero, but you can drag a PDF attachment directly from Zotero to your email client to attach it.
  • chaveroux
    Thanks a lot.
    I tried that in Mail on mac but it just displays the file name of my pdf (no file attached).
  • dstillman
    Ah, OK. It works with Gmail and Thunderbird. For Mail, you can click the Attach button and then drag the attachment from Zotero into the file picker, which will then select the attachment in its original location.
  • chaveroux
    Many thanks.
  • boina
    edited March 29, 2019
    I'm missing this feature! Would be great to have something like this.
    dstillman suggestion works but it is quite long to do, specially if you want to attach several pdfs.

    Is there any part where we could ask or vote for features to be added to zotero?
  • adamsmith
    dstillman is the lead developer, so they're aware of the request and more generally, this is where you'd ask (and there's no voting :)
  • boina
    OMG I should have known better. Thanks a lot dstillman!! Great Software!!
  • plr271
    I would very much appreciate this feature too!
  • f_dedalus
    This feature would be great indeed!
  • jiversen
    I miss this feature, too.

    Desired function: Right click on an entry(s) and have an option to 'email pdf'. It will paste the reference text (like quick copy) and any pdf attachment into a new message in (my case) Mail (MacOS).

    Second best: put the reference text and pdf file into clipboard so I can switch to whichever mail program, make a new message, and paste.

    Thank you!
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