Bulk Export PDF
Allow users to export their PDFs (with annotations or without) in bulk. Selecting them in the classical view and then export all selected files to a specified folder. This would make distributing texts to colleagues or students a lot easier...
Nils Müller
shared this idea
We are investigating this possibility for future versions.
21 comments
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José Aristh Valdiviezo Mora
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Agree!
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Joachim Funke
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PDF export is urgently needed
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Anonymous
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The feature has not been implemented for over two years now. This is such an important feature for me that I think of switching to another reference organizing software. Otherwise Mendeley is a great tool.
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Kei
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This would definitely improve Mendeley!
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dede
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This feature is really crucial also to share PDF in bulk with my student
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Julius
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This feature is really crucial to integrate Mendeley seamlessly into the everyday workflow. It shouldn't be too hard to implement, I guess...
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Claudia
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The multiple export of PDFs with annotations would make life easier if you need to archive your literature in project folders.
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Norma Zoe Neszi
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For me it would also be necessary to be able to export my library with the PDFs. So I hope the investigations will be positive ;)
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Anonymous
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What about to export (or to "find") corresponding PDF directly from WORD, from reference list? It is very hard to find all references (listed in my publication) in Mendeley and 1 by 1 export them as PDF.
Is it possible to improve "word plugin"?
Thank You!
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Anonymous
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Waw! I just realized that PDF export already works if you use EXPORT and "EndNoteXML". The only problem is... this it is not "intuitive" very well, so people just do not notice that.
Thanks Mendeley!
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Anonymous
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Great idea! Please!!! It would be very useful option.
Thank you!
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micha
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Please ... just make it draggy droppy :-)
It is really a cruical functionality. -
Anonymous
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a solution with the newest mendely version 1.7.1 is to select the entries to export and then export
1) bibliographic data with BibTex
2) PDF or other attached files with EndNoteXML (look in the directory structure)Cheers FR
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Noam Kremen
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Here's a quick&dirty bash script for linux that will copy all the pdf files *currently open* in mendeley-desktop into a specified folder. Doesn't handle annotations.
#!/bin/bash
dest_dir=$1;
IFS=$'\n'
for file in $(m_id=$(ps -e | grep mendeleydesktop | grep -v defunct | cut -d" " -f2 | tr " " "\n"| tail -n 1) ; \
ls -l /proc/$m_id/fd | grep pdf | awk -F"> " '{print $2}');
do cp "$file" dest_dir;
done
unset IFS -
Anonymous
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Agreed, this is really needed.
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nan
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yeah, this is why mendeley blows
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Henry Trotter
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This is crucial. Just as iTunes allows users to drag and drop a collection of mp3s into a separate folder, so should Mendeley allow users to do the same with their PDFs. And it should operate in a similar manner, duplicating the files as they are dropped into the separate folder so that the original files in the Mendeley folder remain intact.
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Bkrohn
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I can't believe this isn't possible. I want to share about 100 pdfs that I have already organized into a folder with a colleague who doesn't use Mendeley. It seems like my only options are to 1. open each file externally and copy each file one by one . 2. Or export and re-save each pdf with "Export annotated pdf in the document viewer. 3. Or send as email which is clunky and at best can do a few pdfs at a time. This is ridiculous.
I should at least be able to highlight all the refs I want and "Open all in folder" which would pull up the actual folder with all the docs selected.
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alx
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This is badly needed! Especially if you want to copy a collection of documents to a mobile device (e.g. eBook Reader, Tablet, etc.)
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steph
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