Of course may the script require some adjustments before it runs in your
situation. All depends on the naming rules you used for your pdf's. I use <cite
key>.pdf, <cite key>_S.pdf, <cite key>_S2.pdf, <cite key>_S3.pdf etc. If you
use another naming scheme, you need to adjust the script accordingly. You find
all the needed information in the script itself (as I write on the website).
In this context critical sections are in routine getPresentFiles:
Statement
set theShellScript to "cd " & quoted form of workDir & " ; ls -1 " & theCiteKey
& "*." & ext
changed to
set theShellScript to "cd " & quoted form of workDir & " ; ls -1 " & "*." & ext
finds all pdf's (or whatever the current value of 'ext' is) regardless of
naming convention.
That adjustment may already all you need in your case, i.e. to get at least all
pdf's linked to the currently selected BibDesk record. However, this makes
little sense. The problem is how can BibDesk know which pdf goes into which
record? If you use other rules, e.g. author or whatever, you have of course to
adjust the script accordingly. E.g. if your naming convention should be
<author><year>.pdf
then, above statement should be
set theShellScript to "cd " & quoted form of workDir & " ; ls -1 " & theAuthor
& theYear & "." & ext
and you need to populate the variables 'theAuthor' and 'theYear' with the
values of the current record. This means enhancing following script section
on doFixPDFsAndURLs(thePub)
tell application "BibDesk"
tell thePub
set allLinkedFiles to (get POSIX path of linked files)
set theCiteKey to get cite key
set allLinkedURLs to (get linked URLs)
end tell
end tell
such that
on doFixPDFsAndURLs(thePub)
tell application "BibDesk"
tell thePub
set allLinkedFiles to (get POSIX path of linked files)
set theCiteKey to get cite key
set theAuthor to value of field "Author"
set theYear to value of field "Year"
set allLinkedURLs to (get linked URLs)
end tell
end tell
and then enhance the routine getPresentFiles accordingly to pass to it not only
'theCiteKey' but also (or instead) 'theAuthor' and 'theYear", all depending on
your pdf naming convention.
This should get you going. Sorry, can't spend more time on this helping you.
Sincerely yours,
Andreas
ETH Zurich
Prof. Dr. Andreas Fischlin
Systems Ecology - Institute of Integrative Biology
CHN E 21.1
Universitaetstrasse 16
8092 Zurich
SWITZERLAND
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
www.sysecol.ethz.ch<http://www.sysecol.ethz.ch>
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+41 44 633-1136 fax
+41 79 221-4657 mobile
Make it as simple as possible, but distrust it!
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On 01/Sep/2010, at 15:21 , Sang-Heon Dan Shim wrote:
Dear Andreas,
Thanks for the answer. I already downloaded 'Fix PDF and URL Links' and tried
but did not work. It should be due to my lack of knowledge on how the script
works.
In preference, I added script hook for the import publication. Then I open the
Jabref bib file from File > Open. This asks some conversion criteria and I
leave them untouched to proceed to read. This does not seem to change the file
link correctly.
Thanks for help.
Dan
On Sep 1, 2010, at 8:38 AM, Fischlin Andreas wrote:
You find AppleScripts doing exactly this on my website:
http://se-server.ethz.ch/staff/af/bibdesk/index.html
but the scripts are very sophisticated and may need some adjustment. Yet,
script 'Fix PDF and URL Links' does exactly what you need.
Regards,
Andreas
ETH Zurich
Prof. Dr. Andreas Fischlin
Systems Ecology - Institute of Integrative Biology
CHN E 21.1
Universitaetstrasse 16
8092 Zurich
SWITZERLAND
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
www.sysecol.ethz.ch<http://www.sysecol.ethz.ch>
+41 44 633-6090 phone
+41 44 633-1136 fax
+41 79 221-4657 mobile
Make it as simple as possible, but distrust it!
________________________________________________________________________
On 01/Sep/2010, at 13:10 , Sang-Heon Dan Shim wrote:
Hi,
I have been searching for scripts or tools to convert bib file made in Jabref
to Bibdesk. I have ~2000 references in my bib file with PDF links. It seems
that Bibdesk does not convert the PDF links generated by Jabref when it imports
files.
I've searched archives and googled for the last couple of days. I found some
related discussions but so far I have not been able to find any actual
applescripts or tools to do this.
Thanks for help.
Sang-Heon Dan Shim
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