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jawj / Zot2Bib

A Zotero extension that helps you combine the no-typing-required bibliographic magic of Zotero with the TeX-compatibility and Mac-like goodness of BibDesk
http://mackerron.com/zot2bib/
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Zot2Bib does not seem to work with Zotero 5.0 #2

Closed nathan-artist closed 7 years ago

nathan-artist commented 7 years ago

Zot2Bib does not seem to work with Zotero 5.0. The announcement for Zotero 5.0 (2017-07-10) says: "Zotero 5.0 now runs only as a standalone application, and a new Zotero Connector for Firefox replaces the full Firefox extension. We’ve written a separate post explaining this change. Existing Zotero for Firefox users will be automatically upgraded to the Zotero Connector for Firefox within the next few weeks and will need to install Zotero 5.0 to continue accessing their Zotero data locally."

I wonder if Zot2Bib can be updated to support Zotero 5.0? If not, those of us who use Zot2Bib regularly will have to stay with Zotero 4.x as long as we can.

ghost commented 7 years ago

In addition, Zot2Bib seems to no longer work with Firefox 55.0, which marks many add ons as "Legacy" and says that they will definitely all stop working by November 2017 (see below quote). I upgraded Firefox without thinking about it as a pop-up came up, and didn't realize that I was going to lose Zot2Bib with this upgrade!

"Note: Starting in Firefox 57, which will be released in November 2017, only add-ons built with this new technology will work in Firefox. These are indicated by the “Compatible with Firefox 57+” label on addons.mozilla.org (AMO). Add-ons built with the old technology are labeled “Legacy” on the about:addons tab."

jawj commented 7 years ago

Fairly sure Zot2Bib can't be updated to the new technology, as it relies on an external AppleScript. It might be easy to make it work with Zotero standalone, though — that was certainly possible in the past. I'll try to take a look.

ghost commented 7 years ago

Thanks for the quick reply and for looking into the issue.

Janet

On Aug 10, 2017, at 5:42 AM, George MacKerron notifications@github.com wrote:

Fairly sure Zot2Bib can't be updated to the new technology, as it relies on an external AppleScript. It might be easy to make it work with Zotero standalone, though — that was certainly possible in the past. I'll try to take a look.

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vancleve commented 7 years ago

@jawj, let me know if you'd like any help. I played around with Zot2Bib at one point and added the capability to move the downloaded PDF as well ( #1 and here )

jawj commented 7 years ago

Hi all. I've made some minor changes and if you follow the new instructions at http://mackerron.com/zot2bib/ you should be able to get Zot2Bib working as a Zotero standalone extension. Do let me know if not.