Upgrade StorageLinks to pdfs work on Mac, but not on iOS
Dear Zotero Team,
the issue I have encountered, shortly:
- links to pdfs and annotations do not work on iOS...
- despite that all pdfs are stored "in Zotero" (i.e., paid Zotero storage, everything synced perfectly etc.);
- very same links work as expected on Mac.
Step by step:
- I annotate pdf (highlight some text) in Zotero 6 on Mac
- then copy the annotation (citation) from the left sidebar
- paste it to the markdown editor of choice, say Obsidian or Drafts, as: "quote" ([pdf](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/****?page=1&annotation=****))
- on Mac, the link brings me to Zotero app with certain pdf opened on the desired page
- when the markdown file is opened in Obsidian/Drafts on iPad, the aforementioned link does nothing, even lacks the prompt to open Zotero iOS; I believe such functionality worked a month ago or so.
Has something changed in latest Zotero betas or am I just loosing my mind?
What i use:
Zotero Mac: 6.0.14-beta.1+79246196a
Zotero iOS: 1.0.4 (9) (via TestFlight)
MacOS Monterey 12.5.1
iPadOS 15.6.1
As always, thank you so much for great software and extraordinary support!
Kind regards,
Rafał Seredyński
the issue I have encountered, shortly:
- links to pdfs and annotations do not work on iOS...
- despite that all pdfs are stored "in Zotero" (i.e., paid Zotero storage, everything synced perfectly etc.);
- very same links work as expected on Mac.
Step by step:
- I annotate pdf (highlight some text) in Zotero 6 on Mac
- then copy the annotation (citation) from the left sidebar
- paste it to the markdown editor of choice, say Obsidian or Drafts, as: "quote" ([pdf](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/****?page=1&annotation=****))
- on Mac, the link brings me to Zotero app with certain pdf opened on the desired page
- when the markdown file is opened in Obsidian/Drafts on iPad, the aforementioned link does nothing, even lacks the prompt to open Zotero iOS; I believe such functionality worked a month ago or so.
Has something changed in latest Zotero betas or am I just loosing my mind?
What i use:
Zotero Mac: 6.0.14-beta.1+79246196a
Zotero iOS: 1.0.4 (9) (via TestFlight)
MacOS Monterey 12.5.1
iPadOS 15.6.1
As always, thank you so much for great software and extraordinary support!
Kind regards,
Rafał Seredyński
If you just mean the open-pdf link:
The Zutilo add-on can given you the zotero://select link for a PDF (so that'd be zotero://select/library/items/**** -- the open-pdf version just substitutes open-pdf for select in that link, so
zotero://open-pdf/library/items/**** -- I don't think there's currently anything easier, though the Zutilo developer could easily add open-pdf links as an option in Zutilo and it'd also be fairly easy to write a custom translator that genrates them.