Opened 8 years ago

Last modified 7 years ago

#1180 closed enhancement

Support more schemes for PDF URIs in BibTeX Import — at Version 1

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 (1)

comment:1 Changed 8 years ago by karnesky

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