could be that it's an MLZ problem, ZotFile hasn't been tested much on that, but I'd be surprised.

I'm opening the PDF by right-clicking on the pdf and "Open in External Viewer." I'm not using "view file" because that just dumps a copy of the pdf in the downloads folder, since I disabled pdf.js. Th

they should show up in a note to the same item the PDF is attached to. If they don't it'd seem like Zotfile didn't find any annotations.

With Zotfile all you need to do is install it, then open the PDF (that's already attached/linked to a Zotero item) from Zotero in pdfXchange, annotate it, save it (just regularly, i.e. using ctrl+s),

Thaks adamsmith. Do you know if anyone has written up a simple Zotfile instruction purely for scarfing up annotations? That's the only feature in which I am interested presently. I realize that good r

Since everyone else I know loves zotfile (which uses its own version of pdf.js, so having it disabled in FF doesn't matter), my guess is that there isn't much of an incentive to invest in coding this

N.B. Please forgive me, but I need something simpler than Zotfile. I couldn't even figure out how to use it, and it apparently uses that pdf.js thingy in Firefox, which I deliberately disabled because

@Joscha I am using FF 23.0.1 and the previous zotfile version was also 2.3.5. Again, a huge thank you for all your hard work.

@scottcampbell and johnhill, the pdf format is very complex and some files will always make problems. On Mac OS, you can try the poppler based extraction, which might work. You can upload an example f

I've run into exactly the same issue: Zotfile corrupts highlighted text when extracting it. Comments/Stickies are extracted fine. Did you find a solution?

FWIW, I've also got FF 23.0.1 and the previous zotfile version was 2.3.5

Oh right, by default ZotFile asks for an OK if an item already has an attachment.

In ZotFile Prefs ("Advanced Settings"), make sure that "Automatically rename new attachments" is set to "Always rename".

Are you sure it doesn't? What's an example of an operation where it doesn't rename? Which Zotfile version?

I couldn't find any option to do that. I would like Zotfile to rename each attachment I add to my items automatically without me having to click on "rename".

I will try to fix it tomorrow. Can anyone report whether there is an error message in the console after startup before manually changing extensions.zotfile.version (or after changing manually changing

I also had the same problem as lplummer and ifest with the Zotfile tab and popup appearing everytime I opened FF. This started after the update last week. I am using Win 8, FF 23.0.1. When I checked a

Is there any way to have Zotfile use a consistent numbering convention for sequential PDFs such as volumes of a book or journal? I realize that attachments currently can't have metadata of their own,

I solved the problem of the tab continuously opening every time I open Firefox by going into about:config and changing the extensions.zotfile.version value to 3.0.2. I'm not sure why it didn't update

What is your FF version, OS and can you check about:config for the preferences 'extensions.zotfile.version' and 'extensions.zotfile.zotfile3update'? I need that information from both of you.