Hi Tamer Özsu,
Look at the data you provided:
file = {:Users/tozsu/Documents/Collected Papers/Proceedings Papers/EDBT/EDBT
2011/LID11(EDBT)\_a6-zaniolo.pdf},
This is AFAIK not a valid file path, e.g. it starts with a ":". I guess
Christiaan's word use 'junk' is more too often true than not. Making wild
guesses, as perhaps other programs such as Papers do, may also not be always
helpful, because it can be very confusing if it once works and once not for
reasons very difficult to comprehend. And if you look at other program
characteristics, e.g. Papers' lousy cite key generation, you find that perhaps
a small advantage as guessing when pdf metadata are bad is paid with
deficiencies that are intolerable (at least for me).
This is just meant as some considerations to also take into account before
criticizing BibDesk too much.
Sincerely yours,
Andreas Fischlin
ETH Zurich
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Systems Ecology - Institute of Integrative Biology
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On 12/10/2011, at 10:10 , M. Tamer Özsu wrote:
> Thank you. I'll study that.
>
> I wonder how programs such as Papers and Mendeley are able to extract that
> info from PDF files -- or do they not extract them from the PDFs?
>
> ==Tamer
>
> On 2011-10-11, at 11:20 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote:
>
>>
>> On Oct 11, 2011, at 14:16, M. Tamer Özsu wrote:
>>
>>> Some PDF files do have this information included as metadata that some
>>> programs are able to extract. I thought there might be a mechanism such as
>>> that, but I understand that there isn't.
>>
>> There is, but most of that metadata is junk. Look for
>> BDSKShouldUsePDFMetadata on this page:
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/bibdesk/index.php?title=Tips_and_Tricks
>>
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