If you click the "Import" button, the chances are pretty good you want  
to keep the bib info, and it sounds like that's what Saviolo is  
doing?  Does PubMed provide a link to the file?  I think Papers is  
somehow able to download metadata + files automatically, so that would  
be an alternative (if they fix their BibTeX export).


On Jun 26, 2008, at 4:30 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:

> Not directly. It would not be a good idea to just download the file,
> because at the time the bibliography info is downloaded from PubMed
> BibDesk has no way if knowing if you actually want to keep the
> reference or just have it as a search result or something. The extra
> overhead of downloading (large) PDFs and polluting the system with PDF
> copies would be a bad idea. If the bibliogra[hy info somehow has a URL
> pointing to the PDF you can use that to download the PDF from within
> BibDesk.
>
> Christiaan
>
> On 26 Jun 2008, at 4:06 AM, Rafael Saviolo Moreira wrote:
>
>> Could Bibdesk automaticaly retrieve the pdf file associated to the
>> bibliographic information? When I select any entry searrched in
>> Pubmed, it imports only the bibliogrphic reference but not the pdf
>> file. Could this be done?
>> Thank you for your attention Adam
>> Saviolo
>>
>>
>>
>> On 25/06/2008, at 22:26, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Jun 25, 2008, at 5:13 PM, Rafael Saviolo Moreira wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, I learned how to configure my Mac to access the VPN. Now I can
>>>> download a reference but I don't know how to download automatically
>>>> the  pdf file to the publication on BibDesk. Can Bibdesk do this
>>>> function?
>>>
>>> Please clarify your question.  What do you expect or want BibDesk to
>>> do?
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> adam
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