How to automatically embed hyperlinks into citations and bibliographical entries of a downloaded PDF document! Part II
A sample from the text which can be created is shown below:
The AppleScript code for the link dictionary with author-year compinations is the following:
A sample from the text which can be created is shown below:A sample from the text which can be created is shown below:
Now you are ready to go to Adobe Acrobat Pro and use the AutoBookmark plug-in. In the following screen shots you can see the detailed steps in order to create the new dictionaries.
| In this step you should select the txt file which was created by one of the two AppleScripts |
Now your link dictionary is ready.
How to automatically embed hyperlinks into citations and bibliographical entries of a downloaded PDF document! Part I
The required tools/programs for this dream to come true are the following:
- Adobe Acrobat Pro for Windows
- AutoBookmark plug-in for Adobe Acrobat Pro
- A Windows virtual machine
- DevonThink
- BibDesk
- TextMate
- Link dictionaries
- The AppleScripts for creating automatically the link dictionaries from BibDesk
More details about the workflow
AutoBookmark searches page text for occurrences of specific words or phrases and generates links annotations according to the user specifications. Link dictionary is a collection of search terms (words, phrases and etc.) and corresponding link actions. When it finds a search term from a dictionary it automatically creates a link annotation using a link action that is associated with it. Each search term should be unique within a link dictionary (excerpt from AutoBookmark help file). So you need to have an appropriate link dictionary so as the hyperlinks to the sources to be created automatically by AutoBookmark.
For our case I consider optimal the use of two different dictionaries each with its own advantages and disadvantages. The first contains various possible forms of author-year citations e.g. Clark 2008, Clark (2008, Clark Stephen (2008, Clark S. 2008, Clark S. (2008. The advantage of this dictionary is that the matches are almost 100% unique. However the probability of the match is somewhat small because of the high variability in the way that the citations are made. The second contains the source titles. Now the situation is the complete opposite because you can very easily have false positive matches if the title is too generic but there is no case of a missing match if the title is adequately complex.
In my next post I will describe how you can create the link dictionaries from your Mac.




