Beta: Consolidating Mendeley proprietary annotations into open-format PDFs without exporting
Hi everybody,
This beta has been amazing so far. Congrats on the great work, as it probably involved some serious reverse-engineering.
I realize that we can now see proprietary Mendeley annotations within the new built-in PDF reader, and that we can bulk-export them to normal annotated PDFs any viewer/editor can open. (And with much better results than those provided by the old Mendeley export tool from years ago.)
However, is there a way to bulk-convert the PDFs without exporting them so that they stay in place? Meaning, making it so that a Mendeley PDF that is attached to an item in the Zotero library becomes an "open-format" PDF including the annotations, without moving it elsewhere and having to re-import it again?
Maybe I'm missing something and it's super easy, so I apologize and thank you in advance!
This beta has been amazing so far. Congrats on the great work, as it probably involved some serious reverse-engineering.
I realize that we can now see proprietary Mendeley annotations within the new built-in PDF reader, and that we can bulk-export them to normal annotated PDFs any viewer/editor can open. (And with much better results than those provided by the old Mendeley export tool from years ago.)
However, is there a way to bulk-convert the PDFs without exporting them so that they stay in place? Meaning, making it so that a Mendeley PDF that is attached to an item in the Zotero library becomes an "open-format" PDF including the annotations, without moving it elsewhere and having to re-import it again?
Maybe I'm missing something and it's super easy, so I apologize and thank you in advance!
We've said that it will likely be possible at some point to transfer Zotero annotations to the PDF file and remove the source annotations, and vice versa, but once they're in the PDF they'd be read-only annotations like any other external annotations. Unless you have a very good reason to do that, we'd recommend simply exporting the files as needed (e.g., when emailing to someone). Unlike with Mendeley, there's never any doubt that you'll be able to get your data out of Zotero in whatever form you want.
Thank you!
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/379933/#Comment_379933
I understand it is now stored in the database and somehow gets lost in translation when moving the PDF file (?). This only happens when it does move it. Text highlighted in the new location does stay highlighted even after renaming again.