Zotero 7 Beta: Select All from the Edit menu is broken for annotations in a PDF viewer tab

mjthoraval · December 6, 2023

1) Open a PDF file in a PDF Viewer tab with several annotations.
2) Select an annotation in the Annotations pane on the left.
3) Click on the menu Edit->Select All
4) Click in the PDF file.
5) Click on an annotation in the Annotations pane on the left.
--> At this stage, the Annotations pane crashes and disappears, together with the top bar at the top of the PDF Viewer containing the Toolbar. I cannot make any annotation anymore in that tab. I also do not get popup windows on the hyperlinks anymore. The other PDF tabs opened continue to work fine.

[JavaScript Error: "editorNode is null" {file: "resource://zotero/reader/reader.js" line: 19490}]

The Debug ID is D1176610267.

Doing the same from the shortcut Ctrl+A is working fine.

martynas_b · December 6, 2023

Nice catch — we'll fix it

mjthoraval · June 20, 2024

The Annotations Pane is not crashing anymore, but it still does not work in the latest beta. After step 3 above, the top of the Annotations Pane becomes likes this:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u265723/z09ntsnkqn589k2fdlhx.png

And the popup windows in the PDF Reader get a blue or grey background:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u265723/x8zhw01p6d4ktmqeyht7.png

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u265723/kv6dbyj9c7954mgqmzx8.png

Zotero 7.0.0-beta.90+f829d7c43 (64-bit)
Windows 10

mjthoraval · 2024-12-04T09:03:30+00:00

An update on this problem: the icons at the top of the Annotations Panes are not being selected anymore. But the Edit -> Select All menu option still does not work. It highlights the comment of the annotation selected when selected from the Annotations Pane:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u265723/k7z4tcadnb0lyphorgvo.png

Zotero 7.0.11-beta.4+8317f7783 (64-bit)
Windows 10

mjthoraval · 2024-12-09T09:15:48+00:00

Some other steps:
1) Open a PDF with existing annotations in the Zotero PDF Reader
2) Select an existing annotation in the Annotations Pane
3) From the top menu: Edit -> Select All
4) Right-click on an annotation
->
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u265723/2b8r1hbhy7tbihxfdw3i.png

5) Go the Outline tab in the left pane:
->
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u265723/30dm42pwfzcczi1ututy.png

Zotero 7.0.11-beta.9+0a6095322 (64-bit)
Windows 10

martynas_b · 2024-12-09T13:25:00+00:00

We'll try to fix that again. Thanks.

mjthoraval · 2024-12-09T13:27:05+00:00

Thank you.