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• It seems that 4) above is unreliable (maybe cache dependent?) -- I keep getting the cookie HTML file when attaching a ScienceDirect PDF I haven't seen before.

  in Cannot retrieve PDF files through a proxy Comment by lesha May 28, 2009
• Thanks, Dan! I'm not dragging a PDF, I'm dragging a PDF link from the webpage. I think this is effectively the same as "Save link as Zotero item". Is that not so? As far as I understand, dragging a PDF *file* would not even work under Lin…

  in Cannot import, or save PDF items: get browser "Save" dialog instead. Comment by lesha May 28, 2009
• I was able to install Acrobat on one of the machines. That makes all of those things work, albeit a little slowly at first -- the Acrobat plugin (and application) actually gets started in the background in order to _add the PDF_ to Zotero. So, it se…

  in Cannot import, or save PDF items: get browser "Save" dialog instead. Comment by lesha May 28, 2009
• Sorry for being unclear! :) I hope this is better: 1) The only way that does work is to save my PDFs to the file system, and use Attachments -> Add -> (either Link or Copy works). 2) Dragging-and-dropping a PDF in many cases does n…

  in Cannot import, or save PDF items: get browser "Save" dialog instead. Comment by lesha May 27, 2009
• Just tested this on Windows 2000 / Firefox 3.0.10 / Zotero 2.0b4. Still the same story: PDF drag-and-drop does not work, PDF "Save link as Zotero item" pops up a "Save" dialog box. I can't believe I'm the only one with this problem...

  in Cannot import, or save PDF items: get browser "Save" dialog instead. Comment by lesha May 27, 2009
• Thanks, Dan! -- adding a BOM to the BibTex file made the import successful. PDFs still refuse to be added automatically. I thought that these problems had the same cause, but I guess not. noksagt, thanks! -- dragging a PDF onto an item wou…

  in Cannot import, or save PDF items: get browser "Save" dialog instead. Comment by lesha May 27, 2009