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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
