#64 Several PDF files / supporting information

[Anonymous]

First of all many, many thanks for JabRef, it is a
great program!

Many journals allow to deposit "supporting
information", which might be additional PDF files,
structure coordinate files, source code, etc.

Would it be possible to (i) specify more than one PDF
file, so that they still get opened correctly when
clicking the PDF button, (ii) or have an additional
field "supporting information", where the filenames of
the supporting files might go?

Andreas

[Andreas Hartmann]

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As well, sometimes I like to add files of my own to a
publication (comment, derivation of formulas, examples that
I compute following, ... ). As these are not always pdf a
more general feature would be nice.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I made a small perl script, which has to be specified as the
pdf viewer in jabref. It allows a comma-seperated list of
file names in the pdf entry. Jabref puts the correct path to
the first entry. This script adds this path to all the
following files and opens all files simultanously. I found
it quite handy, when an article comes with an additional pdf
file (supporting information).

Andreas

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#!/usr/bin/perl

use File::Basename;

$input = join( " ", @ARGV );
@files = split( /\s*,\s*/, $input );
$dirname = dirname( $files[0] );

foreach $file (@files) {
$basename = basename( $file );
$filename = $dirname."/".$basename;
$command = "/usr/local/bin/acroread ".$filename." &";
system( $command );
sleep 1;
}

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I was also thinking about this and it would, indeed, be a very useful feature. Both Nature and Science provide supplementaty materials and thus there is a need for more than one PDF attached to a bibtex entry in JabRef. I thought this could be solved by inserting the PDFs separated by commas:
"file1.pdf, file2.pdf"
and then when clicking on the PDF/PS icon in the list of papers, it would show a drop-down list with these two files to choose from. Would it be possible to incorporate this ?

Many thanks for JabRef - it is indispensable in my work.

Roman

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I was also thinking about this and it would, indeed, be a very useful feature. Both Nature and Science provide supplementaty materials and thus there is a need for more than one PDF attached to a bibtex entry in JabRef. I thought this could be solved by inserting the PDFs separated by commas:
"file1.pdf, file2.pdf"
and then when clicking on the PDF/PS icon in the list of papers, it would show a drop-down list with these two files to choose from. Would it be possible to incorporate this ?

Many thanks for JabRef - it is indispensable in my work.

Roman