Feature request: change pdf tab text in Zotero pdf viewer

timpol · January 31, 2023

I like the addition of the pdf viewer in Zotero, but when a large number of pdf documents are open, the article titles shown on the tabs become truncated and it can be difficult to identify which is which. This is especially problematic if several articles start with the same word.

I was wondering if it would be possible to:

(a) provide an option to show the article author or citekey in the tabs instead of the titles.

and/or

(b) spread these tabs over two or three lines when a large number of documents are open to reduce the amount the title is truncated.

poettli · January 31, 2023

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/99762/is-there-a-way-to-change-the-name-of-the-pdf-tabs-to-be-the-first-authors-name-and-year

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/95387/tab-names-in-pdf-viewer

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/96809/feature-request-author-date-in-pdf-viewer-tabs

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/93287/zotero-pdf-viewer-author-title

dstillman · February 23, 2023

@timpol: In Zotero 6.0.22, available now, you can choose to use "Creator - Year - Title" or "Filename" for PDF tab titles instead of "Title - Creator - Year". This can be configured from the General pane of the Zotero settings.

timpol · February 23, 2023

@poettli Thank you for pointing that out, and apologies for my sloppy research.

@dstillman Thanks so much for implementing this! It works well!

pjmtavares · April 6, 2023

Would it be possible to add a choice for "Short Title", to the "Show tabs as" setting?
Zotero is my go-to PDF reader and I usually have over a dozen documents open. The truncated titles are often indistinguishable, and the other metadata fields (creator and filename) are often also bad choices to serve as meaningful *and* differentiating tab text.

dstillman · April 7, 2023

@pjmtavares: I'm not clear how that helps, in the usual case where Short Title is just a prefix of the full title. If it's being truncated at a tab width anyway, what difference does it make if it's a short title or full title? Can you give some examples of how this would be useful?