Re: [Jabref-users] JabRef, Subversion and PDF directory

[Morten O. A. <mor...@gm...>]

On 26 January 2011 16:11, Michael Chen <van...@gm...> wrote:
> Dear there,
>
> I recently setup a server for sharing documents among my
> collaborators. For each project, i have a subfold doc/ to hold
> literature and a bibtex file for these literature, and I would like to
> use JabRef to manage these literature. The problem is that the main
> PDF directory is not right after one checkouts the project through
> Subversion to a different machine. I can limit myself to store the
> literature and the database file under the same directory. Hence the
> problem can be solved if we can set the Main PDF directory to be
> whatever the directory the database file resides. It seems that I have
> to use absolute path in specifying thd PDF directory though. Any idea
> or suggestions?

You can specify a directory relative to the file using File ->
Database properties and setting a relative path for "File directory".
This will then be valid for this specific bib file.

Since you mention "PDF directory" specifically, I should mention that
this requires that you are using the "file" field and not the "pdf"
field for your links. If not, you'll need to use Tools -> Scan
database... -> "Upgrade external links" to move your "pdf" links into
the "file" field automatically.

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Morten