Re: [Jabref-users] multiple import of xmp-tagged pdf-files?

[Christopher O. <oe...@oe...>]

Hi Jakob,
   can you specify how you tried to import the files? Drag & Drop or Append  
to database? As far as I know both ways should work.

Thanks,
   Christopher

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:28:50 +0200, Jakob Schweizer  
<jak...@bi...> wrote:

> Dear Jabref Users,
>
> Jabref allows the import of a xmp-tagged pdf-file into your database. Is
> this also possible for multiple pdf-files? If not, is there hope that
> this will be possible in future.
>
> Thank you for any help, Jakob
>
> More information:
> Jabref allows to attach a text-tag (XMP) to pdf-files containing all
> necessary reference data and even the full abstract (simimlar to
> id3-tags for mp3-files). Using XMP tags it is easy to share the
> reference data with colleagues so that they don't have to download the
> reference data again into their jabref database. You can even tag your
> all your collected pdf-files at once in jabref, but on the other hand it
> is only possible to import single xmp-tagged pdf files. In our institute
> I would like to set up literature database consisting of XMP-tagged
> pdf-files so that every member of our group can read all reference data
> into their own jabref database.