v3.2

• Goto annotation in pdf

  This is not really a new feature but with two recent changes in Zotero (see this and this pull request), it became much more useful! Simply click on the link that is part of your extracted annotations, and zotfile will open the pdf on the page with the annotation. The feature now works on Windows as well (thanks to aurimasv) and I have added support for Skim on Mac. Check out the documentation for some more details.

• Improved extraction of annotation

  This version includes three improvements for the extraction of annotations. First, the extraction is now based on the most recent pdf.js version (here is my fork with the modified version of pdf.js used in zotfile). With this update, zotfile should work with more pdfs. Second, the extraction is now about 40-60% faster (depending on the pdf) thanks to some improvements in the extraction code. Third, the extraction now runs in the background so that Zotero is not blocked while annotations are extracted.

• Improved information windows

• Improved renaming function (avoids re-indexing of linked attachments)

• New wildcards for editors (%d, %D, %L, %l)

• Fix bug with unnecessary suffix after multiple renames of same file

v3.1

• New zotfile webpage at www.zotfile.com
• User-defined wildcards (documentation)
• watch folder now adds an attachment and retrieves metadata if no file is selected
• fix pdf.js issue with some pdf annotation (see this discussion)
• New hidden preferences for duration of info windows (info_window_duration and info_window_duration_clickable)
• The %w wildcard now maps to the correct field for most item types
• The %u wildcard as redundant (use %y instead)
• Choose the number of authors to display when truncating authors during renaming (thanks to bwiernik)
• fix problem that small info window does not disappear

v3.0.3

Changes in 3.0.3

• fix for issue with showing website on every restart
• fix for issue when adding new attachment

Previous changes in 3.0

• Improved extraction of annotation

  The extraction of pdf annotations using pdf.js works much better now! Zotfile uses a modified version of the updated pdf.js library (here is the fork). The new version supports more pdf standards, detects spaces more precisely, sorts annotations in the correct order, and future updates to new versions of pdf.js are relatively easy. There are still pdfs that won't work though! Some pdf standards are not yet supported and if you can not copy & paste text from the pdf file using your pdf viewer (e.g. Preview), it's unlikely that zotfile can help.

• Goto annotation in pdf

  The extracted annotations now include a link that opens the pdf file on the corresponding page. For the extracted annotation "This is my text" (zotfile 2013: 4), zotfile 2013: 4 is a link that opens the pdf on the page with the annotation. Currently, this feature only works from reports (right-click on item and select generate report) but future version of Zotero might be able to open the links directly from the note (see discussion here and here)

• Tablet feature: Restrict saved search for tablet files to sub-folders

  You can now right-click on the two saved searches for tablet files and restrict them to one of your custom sub-folders. This is very helpful to quickly see the files that are in a specific sub-folder.

• Tablet feature: Support of colored tags in Zotero 4

  Zotfile now tags the parent item when an attachment is send to the tablet so that you can easily see which items are on the tablet. Simply assign colors to the two tablet tags (_tablet and _tablet_modified). But DO NOT manually add the tag to items or attachments (also not using the keys for colored tags).

• Italian localization (thanks to Roberto Caviglia)

• Remove empty sub-folders when getting files from tablet

• Fix alert window (headline was missing in Zotero 4)

• Fix automatic renaming option "Only ask if..."

• Fix for zotfile item menu on Zotero as a tab