No there aren't and AppleScript is pretty straightforward. IMHO it is a good
philosophy by BD developers, notably Christiaan, to not overload the basic
program with too many features risking to get a buggy BD. AppleScript is not
that difficult to learn and there are plenty of examples around that almost do
what you want. For instance I have written one that extracts all info for all
linked files of currently selected records
http://www.sysecol.ethz.ch/people/afischli/software Inspect Linked
Files
The only change you would need to make is write the results not into an alert
but into a text field of the currently processed record. Then you can easily
extract it under linux from the .bib-file.
And if you do not care about the difference between real pdf files, symbolic
links, or aliases, then you could even simplify my algorithm even more.
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]
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!
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On 23/Sep/2010, at 08:39 , Matthias Brennwald wrote:
> On 09/21/2010 10:30 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 21, 2010, at 22:04, Matthias Brennwald wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all
>>>
>>> I am in the process of switching from Mac OS X to Linux. How can I
>>> convert the file links in my BibTeX / BibDesk database to a standard URL
>>> that will be meaningful on Linux?
>>>
>>> Matthias
>>>
>>> --
>>> Matthias Brennwald, Käferholzstrasse 173, CH-8046 Zürich
>>> +41 44 364 17 03, +41 79 577 72 60
>>
>> You could write an applescript that converts linked files to Local-Url
>> fields.
>
> I could, if I could. But I don't speak applescript. Aren't there other,
> more straightforward options?
>
> Matthias
>
>
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> +41 44 364 17 03, +41 79 577 72 60
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