Opened 8 years ago

Closed 7 years ago

#1180 closed enhancement (fixed)

Support more schemes for PDF URIs in BibTeX Import

Reported by: karnesky Owned by: simon
Priority: minor Milestone:
Component: ingester Version: 1.5
Keywords: Cc:

Description (last modified by karnesky)

Many programs give links to PDFs in their BibTeX export. Unfortunately, it is highly non-standard. We only support:

Old JabRef

pdf={/full/path/to/file.pdf}

but the full path is sometimes prefixed by the protocol (Zotero assumes that it is absent & prepends 'file://'). Further, it is often stored in other fields:

Sente:

sentelink = {file://localhost/full/path/to/file.pdf,Sente,PDF}

New JabRef:

file = {Description of the file:/full/path/to/file.pdf:PDF}

(Mendeley apparently uses a similar syntax; it is unclear if they use the description field & whether the case of the ':PDF' suffix matters to either program.)

and probably many others.

See:
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/3365/
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/3568/
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/4264/
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/6527/

Change History (2)

comment:1 Changed 8 years ago by karnesky

  • Description modified (diff)

comment:2 Changed 7 years ago by dstillman

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from new to closed

(In [4686]) Closes #1514, Patch for Improved BibTex Import/Export: shorttitle, bookSection->incollection, character mapping, translator, seriesNumber, space-delimited keywords, note/annote/comment/review <-> notes/extra, file import
Closes #1180, Support more schemes for PDF URIs in BibTeX Import

Thanks for the patch.

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