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From: Maxwell, A. R <ada...@pn...> - 2009-05-21 20:50:02
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On 05/21/09 13:30, "Alex Montgomery" <ah...@me...> wrote: > On 2009-05-21, at 10:48 AM, Gregory Jefferis wrote: > >> On 2009-05-21 18:33, "Alex Hamann" <mai...@al...> wrote: >> >>>> I have to say that I would really like to be able to do this ie do >>>> the >>>> equivalent of dragging the PDF file onto the top window in bibdesk. >>>> >>>> I think that it might require >>>> >>>> 1) Bibdesk App accepts dropped pdfs >>>> 2) There is some way of deciding which bib file is the target of >>>> the dropped >>>> pdf if more than one is open. >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> >>>> Greg. >>>> >>> >>> It is not clear to me what you would expect to happen? Do you want to >>> autofile the pdf or are you hoping to extract the bibtex data from >>> the pdf by dropping it on the BibDesk icon? >> >> Extract DOI and use it to make a new bibtex record and then autofile >> PDF - >> which is what happens when you drop a pdf that contains a DOI that >> can be >> looked up on PubMed onto a bibdesk window. > > Dropping on the BibDesk icon (or having Safari, etc. send it to > BibDesk) should probably be treated consistently with dropping a text > file: open up a new bibliography with the PDF attached to an empty > record. There are a couple of separate requests getting mixed into this thread, it seems. Christiaan already pointed out that you can't add an "Add to BibDesk" item to a browser's contextual menu, since the browser has no way of knowing what data underlies a particular link (web page, pdf file, text file...). > If "open up one particular bib file" is set in Preferences, perhaps it > could be added to that bib file instead. Maybe, but what problem does dropping on the icon solve? You can get the same result without this ambiguity by adding a file or dragging a URL directly to a BibDesk document. BibDesk's interface and code already suffer from too many ways to do the same thing, in my opinion. |