Wow, that's so exciting - that means Zotero could take care of pretty much all my inputs (except video and audio). Congratulations on your recent work, you're really creating something special here!
What a nice team! I just requested this feature recently, and you already implemented it, that's too fast! Hope you can have iPad With Apple Pencil for EPUB files supported soon! Thanks!!!
Enjoying this new functionality. However, I've just noticed that the ePub reader toolbar differs from the PDF toolbar, in that it doesn't have all the tools and specifically the "area select" tool.
Is this "as designed"?
I'm running version 7.0.0-beta.39+ecba25be0 (64-bit) on Win10.
the epub reader is cool. I could not find a way to enlarge the margins (now it occupies only half of my screen). I can use a bigger character, but the margins stay the same. I have no pen, but while now the pdf reader shows the buttons (as on my iPad) the epub reader does not show them. BTW is it plan an iPad version to annotate epubs? That would be really cool. And since I am here, in the old zotero for iPad, using liquidtext does not work very well (the internal zotero tool is at the end better). I think the main problem is because it takes too long to download files from the library. But the pen support is much better on liquidtext (unless I am doing something wrong)
I've just noticed that the ePub reader toolbar differs from the PDF toolbar, in that it doesn't have all the tools and specifically the "area select" tool.
Is this "as designed"?
@Lotus49: Yes, many EPUBs reflow, so annotations that depend on a specific layout don't make sense.
@dstillman Thanks, I understand how that would be problematic. The functionality we have now with Reader certainly makes it very attractive, and I can always "grab" sections with a Snipping tool.
The epub reader is great news. I was wondering if it will support epubs with adobe DRM? Or is it only useful for epubs without drm? I guess most ebooks are still saddled with DRMs even when they are in the epub format.
Not sure I was missing something before, but it seems there is a new feature: going with the mouse over a note, the note text is displayed. This is a truly wonderful feature. ...but would it be possible to resize the window so that I can read the full note?
QUOTED--- Not sure I was missing something before, but it seems there is a new feature: going with the mouse over a note, the note text is displayed. This is a truly wonderful feature. ...but would it be possible to resize the window so that I can read the full note? --------
This does not happen for me. What version are you on?
Sorry, what do you mean? it does not display notes or it displays them correctly? some pdf do not display notes, I think that does not depend on zotero. it works when the note has a link. for some pdfs the note is displayed properly, but for others I can read only a bit. I guess the text is not resized to fit into the pop up window.
These updates sound great! Another reason to love Zotero.
I would like to +1 the expand margins feature. I currently use the ios version to write annotations by hand and would appreciate and extra 1/2" on pdfs that import with narrow margins.
I'm playing with 7 on my MacBook, but have 6 for plugins on my Mini. Can't wait for plugin support to get rolling. I use a lot of OCR, citation counts, and file name fixers. Unfortunately, I think a lot of plugin writers hit final versions 2021/2022 with little left to add and might have moved on. Let's hoping they get some renewed life, because 7 has been running much more solid for me, whereas 6 will crash sometimes when adding citations, or completely die on bibliography on certain entries... I'm super ready for 7, because I have a few integrations with other services I'd like to get rolling but I want to land on a single version first.
Maybe some fine person out there will fork the most popular for 7 if the old dev is gone. ;)
Great work on 7 BTW. It was a lifesaver many times during 6 issues!
There are a number of comments here regarding margin size. I would like to present the problem from another perspective: line width. Lines that are too narrow make text difficult to read and so do lines that are too wide. It is often said that a paragraph of 50-70 characters width is optimal, but whatever it is one thing is certain: paragraph width is important for readability. The epub reader always fits the available width and reflows text (btw, the "Automatically Resize" button isn't removed from the toolbar, although it's useless for epub). The only way to tune line width (while keeping a comfortable font size) is to move the tab to its own window and resize the window. I believe that line width is a more desirable control than margin size, but any of them will improve on the current situation.
I think I read somewhere that the new PDF reader on Mac, coming in Zotero 7, would be much faster, and zoom (through the trackpad pinch gesture) would be significantly smoother, but I can't find the reference. Can someone confirm if this is the case?
I just became aware of Zetero 7 Beta and found the new features really nice!!! Many thanks to the developers!!!
Still, I would like to give some advice on taking annotations on the PDF reader: 1. When I right-click a selected text, I hope to make it underlined by clicking the hanging-over buttons, just like highlighting it. 2. I hope to use command+Z (or ctrl+Z on Windows) to undo my annotations. 3. Currently, I find the underlines invisible on iPad even if I use the Beta version of Zetero on iPad. Is this normal?
Thanks again for developing such a wonderful tool!
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Hope you can have iPad With Apple Pencil for EPUB files supported soon!
Thanks!!!
However, I've just noticed that the ePub reader toolbar differs from the PDF toolbar, in that it doesn't have all the tools and specifically the "area select" tool.
Is this "as designed"?
I'm running version 7.0.0-beta.39+ecba25be0 (64-bit) on Win10.
Thanks
the epub reader is cool. I could not find a way to enlarge the margins (now it occupies only half of my screen). I can use a bigger character, but the margins stay the same. I have no pen, but while now the pdf reader shows the buttons (as on my iPad) the epub reader does not show them. BTW is it plan an iPad version to annotate epubs? That would be really cool. And since I am here, in the old zotero for iPad, using liquidtext does not work very well (the internal zotero tool is at the end better). I think the main problem is because it takes too long to download files from the library. But the pen support is much better on liquidtext (unless I am doing something wrong)
Not sure I was missing something before, but it seems there is a new feature: going with the mouse over a note, the note text is displayed. This is a truly wonderful feature. ...but would it be possible to resize the window so that I can read the full note?
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This does not happen for me. What version are you on?
I would like to +1 the expand margins feature. I currently use the ios version to write annotations by hand and would appreciate and extra 1/2" on pdfs that import with narrow margins.
Maybe some fine person out there will fork the most popular for 7 if the old dev is gone. ;)
Great work on 7 BTW. It was a lifesaver many times during 6 issues!
Thanks!
Still, I would like to give some advice on taking annotations on the PDF reader:
1. When I right-click a selected text, I hope to make it underlined by clicking the hanging-over buttons, just like highlighting it.
2. I hope to use command+Z (or ctrl+Z on Windows) to undo my annotations.
3. Currently, I find the underlines invisible on iPad even if I use the Beta version of Zetero on iPad. Is this normal?
Thanks again for developing such a wonderful tool!
1) Planned
2) Planned
3) Yes