#502 Improving pdf download to Jabref

[brandner]

Hi

in Version 2.4beta new feature is presented:

"Added context menu for file list editor with options to move/rename linked file as well as to automatically move the file to file directory and optionally rename after BibTeX key"

As chemist I'm often downloading papers from lets say Wiley Interscience and download link looks like "http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/121371693/PDFSTART"
which you can't enter as download link otherwise you download something like html.

Is it possible to add the functionality to Jabref to "open the document with Jabref" in terms of piping the document to Jabref and save in the preferenced lets say PDF folder (if file is pdf) defined in preferences.

So my idea:

The user starts a PDF download. If configured correctly the browser will ask for the program to open the PDF.

In this dialogue there would be a link to map the PDF to an jabref entry (manually or using XMP-metadata to map automatically) and save with bibtexkay as filename (see figure).

If more and more publishers in future add XMP-metadata to PDF files, this would be a very comfortable way for obtaining PDF and bibliograhic information.

Bet regards,

Armin

[brandner]

Idea of mapping PDFs to JabRef when downloading

[Morten Omholt Alver]

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I don't understand how this could work - the download link appears in your web browser, and there's nothing we can do from JabRef to influence how you save files from your browser. Perhaps I misunderstood what you meant?

[Jon Jackson]

Perhaps he means if JabRef were able to open a pdf in the same way that adobe acrobat does, but instead of displaying the pdf, it saves it to the 'main PDF directory'. In the process it could read the PDF metadata and creates a bibtex entry. This would be a killer feature! If it needs an additional command line switch for jabref, the user aught to be able to add this when they configure their browser to offer to open pdfs with jabref.

Jon

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Hey guys,

sorry for responding that late, but Jon got it right.

This really would be a killer feature but unfortunately the provided PDF metadata given by the publishers is quite fragmentary in my case (i am chemist and the usual publishers are Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, American Chemical Society ...).

Alternatively, the direct import of citation files to JabRef would be time saving and comfortable. Currently I download citation files to a certain folder. After a while I import the citation files by drag&drop to jabref. Perhaps this "save and import" process could be substituted by a direct piping to JabRef.
What I mean is, that one could tell Firefox/IE to open e.g. ris and enw files with Jabref, so JabRef could import them into a new, the last used or the current open database. If I tell firefox to open ris with JabRef at the moment, a new instance of JabRef is started, but citation is not imported.

I hope this is better to understand.

Best regards,

Armin