3. Use Zotfile to attach downloaded PDFs to an existing item.

UPDATE: After de-activating the plugin Zotfile, the problem persists. No "Open in External viewer" in sight when right-clicking on a pdf-file in Zotero standalone.

Still not sure what you mean when you say I have to edit the notes I import via Zotfile in the Zotero note pane.

Still not sure what you mean when you say I have to edit the notes I import via Zotfile in the Zotero note pane. Can you explain exactly what I need to do?

That's not actually the same—the markup is different. The one with the is what you might get straight from ZotFile, and that won't display properly in the report until you edit it in the Zotero no

OK, there are invisible "control characters" in there, which are invalid in XML. ZotFile should probably strip those itself, but we can do it in Zotero as well. I'll have an update shortly.

A couple of questions re. zotfile from a newbie:

See my previous post. Another problem, I think related to zotfile, is that sections of text extracted from highlighted pdfs are missing spaces. OCR issue?

Another problem, I think related to zotfile, is that sections of text extracted from highlighted pdfs are missing spaces. OCR issue?

I selected a single document to test. I have annotated the pdf and extracted annotations via Zotfile.

Most of my notes are annotations imported via Zotfile. I went in and made a few changes in one in Zotero, but it didn't seem to make any difference - my report is still full of html code and pretty mu

The other option is to use Zotfile's "send to tablet" function.

Also, are you aware of a simple workflow protocol for using zotfile with dropbox and an ipad or other tablet? I saw you warned someone else about pointing directly to dropbox?

I use Zotfile for that: Download the PDF (not adding it to Zotero) into your download folder, then in Zotero with ZotFile installed, select the parent item and do "Attach New File"

I am not going to do something about it until they make up there mind but you can enable the confirm alert boxes again or disable confirmation in zotfile.

the same results. I am also using the Plugin Zotfile, could this have an influence?

I'll try a workflow with doing a two way sync with ZotFile. Seems like it will get the job done.

if you just want to get PDFs on your tablet without the associated metadata, I don't see why ZotFile + DropBox (or whatever sync server you want to use) is not a reasonable solution. What functionalit

adamsmith elaborated: What eawtrey wants to do is to save _all_ attachments as links using Zotfile. That does indeed require dropbox to be in the exact same location on all computers (and I wouldn't r

You could probably do the reverse and store your attachments in DropBox, but create a junction in the same location on different PCs for ZotFile. I have not tested this, but this way DropBox should be