On 10/5/07 7:06 PM, "Christopher W. MacMinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>>> I import references into BibDesk by dragging PDF files into my
>>> BibDesk library, which prompts BibDesk to create a new, blank
>>> reference entry that I can complete.  Sometimes, though, the new
>>> reference entry BibDesk creates is not blank -- many of the fields
>>> are auto-magically completed.  This would be cool and useful if not
>>> for the fact that the information BibDesk supplies is universally and
>>> completely incorrect
>> 
>> This is not supplied by BibDesk, but by the creator of the PDF file.
> 
> That is interesting.  The PDF info is truly a mess more often than
> not, and seems to refer to a completely different article.  Perhaps I
> will contact the PDF authors...

If you have Adobe Acrobat, you could open the PDF file and examine the
meta-data. (File >> Document Properties >> Description.) This would confirm
whether the information you are seeing is actually coming from the file's
meta-data. 

--Ingrid



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