Dropping a pdf onto the bibdesk icon that resulted in the pdf being automatically filed would be a nice feature. Especially if there was a pop up option to assign an exist record from the library.
On 21 May 2009, at 21:30, Alex Montgomery wrote: > On 2009-05-21, at 10:48 AM, Gregory Jefferis wrote: > >> On 2009-05-21 18:33, "Alex Hamann" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>>> I have to say that I would really like to be able to do this ie do >>>> the >>>> equivalent of dragging the PDF file onto the top window in bibdesk. >>>> >>>> I think that it might require >>>> >>>> 1) Bibdesk App accepts dropped pdfs >>>> 2) There is some way of deciding which bib file is the target of >>>> the dropped >>>> pdf if more than one is open. >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> >>>> Greg. >>>> >>> >>> It is not clear to me what you would expect to happen? Do you want >>> to >>> autofile the pdf or are you hoping to extract the bibtex data from >>> the pdf by dropping it on the BibDesk icon? >> >> Extract DOI and use it to make a new bibtex record and then autofile >> PDF - >> which is what happens when you drop a pdf that contains a DOI that >> can be >> looked up on PubMed onto a bibdesk window. > > Dropping on the BibDesk icon (or having Safari, etc. send it to > BibDesk) should probably be treated consistently with dropping a text > file: open up a new bibliography with the PDF attached to an empty > record. > > If "open up one particular bib file" is set in Preferences, perhaps it > could be added to that bib file instead. > > -AHM > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT > is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity > professionals. Meet > the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & > iPhoneDevCamp asthey present alongside digital heavyweights like > Barbarian > Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://www.creativitycat.com > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp asthey present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://www.creativitycat.com _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
