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  1. Wrong reference preview popup in PDF Reader

    by mjthoraval · July 15, 2025
    The text of the "reference" goes out of the box and displays in white over the PDF file.
  2. PDF search checkboxes

    by youmukk · July 15, 2025
    Similar low performance of search texts in zotero PDF reader also occurred on my desktop. If the PDF file is too large, zotero sometimes raises a window saying a script is busy.
  3. Cannot customize PDF reader in 7.0.21

    by jenchiaik · July 15, 2025
    After updating to 7.0.21, Zotero's native PDF reader cannot be customized.
  4. Text selection across pages from keyboard broken in PDF Reader

    by mjthoraval · July 15, 2025
    Just after opening a PDF file in the Zotero PDF Reader, I can select some text and expand the selection to the next page from the Shift+Down arrow shortcut.
  5. Delayed annotation selection after right-click

    by mjthoraval · July 15, 2025
    A right-click on an annotation from the PDF Reader makes that annotation selected only after the next click.
  6. Unable to import annotations

    by nicolas.lienart · July 14, 2025
    I manage to fix this issue using Foxit PDF reader:
  7. [Critical UX Issue] Unwanted Screenshot Annotations from Drawings in Vertical Chinese PDFs (Request

    by xiaoyi1986811 · July 14, 2025
    I'm writing to report a significant usability problem in Zotero 7's built-in PDF reader that severely impacts workflows for East Asian language researchers.
  8. Toggle Context Pane for Mac, version 7.0.13

    by mjthoraval · July 10, 2025
    https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/99602/view-layout-panes-menu-options-do-no-change-the-panes-layout-in-the-pdf-viewer
  9. Different Underline Types In Zotero

    by ralvare03 · July 10, 2025
    Hello! I'm using black and white e-reader to annotate my PDFs. The software I use utilizes different underline types (normal, dashed, and squiggly) to visually differentiate the various colors when I'
  10. Preview on Mac to Zotero

    by dstillman · July 10, 2025
    The highlights will appear automatically when you open the PDF in the Zotero reader, but to make them editable, you have to go to File → Import Annotations, which will transfer them out of the file an
  11. Available for beta testing on iOS: EPUB/snapshot support and PDF metadata retrieval

    by oyvindbs · July 9, 2025
    It is great that the app supports "open-pdf" links for epubs too! I look forward to the future refinement of the epub reader.
  12. Android FR: Info/Notes pane while reading a document

    by ryanwwest · July 8, 2025
    Zotero desktop reader mode shows a left sidebar with thumbnails/annotations/outline tabs, and a right sidebar with Info/abstract/tags/etc and note editor tabs. Zotero Android reader has the left sideb
  13. PDF search checkboxes

    by educatedspice99 · July 8, 2025
    I love Zotero. However, for me, search in big PDFs in Zotero's default reader have been slow (and slower than other PDF readers on either Windows or iOS). I tried doing multiple things, including dele
  14. External pdf reader support on iPad

    by rlasse · July 8, 2025
    both devices as I like to use custom colors and pdf viewing options (as well as being able to edit files while reading).
  15. Available for beta testing on iOS: EPUB/snapshot support and PDF metadata retrieval

    by dstillman · July 8, 2025
    1) EPUB/snapshot support: You can now view and annotate EPUBs and webpage snapshots in the built-in reader. This follows the EPUB/snapshot support in Zotero 7, and annotations now sync seamlessly betw
  16. Android Bug: Highlight color picker differs from actual highlight color - plus highlight SQL thought

    by ryanwwest · July 6, 2025
    Sometimes I switch between light and dark mode in one session and make highlights of different colors in both modes. I've noticed a bug where the displayed color of the highlighted text can get out of
  17. Zotero built-in PDF viewer could not display texts correctly

    by mengch · July 4, 2025
    zotero pdf reader Do not display the equal and minus sign
  18. Overlapping popup menus (7.1 beta)

    by poettli · July 3, 2025
    https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/124938/double-context-menus-on-annotations-in-the-pdf-reader
  19. iOS + iPadOS: Spoken content not continuing to next page, instead goes in circles

    by foss- · July 2, 2025
    GoodReader says "no speakable content found" so completely broken.
  20. ZotFile for Zotero 7

    by tim820 · July 1, 2025
    So in the web library you can see the parent item (if you have data syncing on, which is free and unlimited) but not the attached PDF.
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