These release notes list all known issues with the current build of Papers, plus all improvements made since the previous version of Papers.

Known Issues

• Downloading multiple PDFs at the same time doesn't always work

What's New?



• Papers 1.8.6
• Added additional check and warning upon missing spotlight indices
• Creating a new library after a missing one now correctly creates spotlight indices
• Fixed an issue where pdfs by the same author in the same journal would get mixed up
• Fixed an issue where importing papers would lead to a Could not Merge changes error
• Fixed an issue in the new Papers Archives plugins caused by quotes in filenames
• Fixed an issue with accented authornames in the arXiv plugin
• Improved display of new available versions
• Unmatching now works on multiple selected papers
• Plugin tableviews now corrrectly keep focus while changing the selection
• Year and citation columns are now user resizable
• Various translation issues



History



• Papers 1.8.5
• Added support for Papers Archives, packages containing PDF and metadata for easy exchange of Papers
• Added more security to prevent Papers from losing links to untitled pdfs
• Added a unique number column in the main tableview
• Added check whether a webpage contains multiple DOIs
• Added check to prevent double import of authornames of dc metadata
• Added a workaround to make SFX linkouts work
• Added support for drag and drop of webloc files and urls onto the Papers icon
• Added support for dragging the PDF icon in the lower right corner into collections
• Added support for dragging the small paper/web icon in tabs
• Added the option to reload a webpage without the use of a proxy
• Added a PDF file export plugin
• Added more safety checks when replacing PDFs
• Adding a new collection no longer opens all sibling collections
• Improved first responder status throughout
• Improved display of number of papers
• Improved sorting of title, identifier, pages and volume columns
• Improved popupmenu location during matching
• Improved behaviour of notes field in inspector
• Improved parsing of pasted author names in inspector
• Scrollwheel now properly above notes in the inspector
• Impact factor now shows three decimals
• While editing fields and notes the inspector now scrolls along such that the edited text will stay visible
• Better naming of untitled papers resulting from opening an etoc or homepage from the journal or author section
• Printing issued from the toolstrip will now issue a printed date
• Preview toolbar button now shows menu by default
• If focus is on tableview pressing the spacebar will now open the selected paper fullscreen
• Copy as Citekey now also works from tabs
• Opening the webpage of a paper no longer automatically marks it as read
• Opening a PDF in an external viewer now automatically marks it as read
• Searching in PDFs now shows yellow highlighting animation on Leopard
• After registration name and serial number are now automatically filled in and activated
• Newly created subcollections are now immediately sorted on name
• Deleting a temporary paper no longer asks whether you wish to keep it
• The assistant now remembers the sound on/off setting
• Adding authors in match modules now correctly shifts focus to searchfield
• Added warning in the Smart Collection edit panel against configurations that might negatively affect performance
• Added extra measurements to prevent reshuffling of Papers during deleting items in the tableview
• Fullscreen mode now remembers autoscaling if set using the 0 key
• Changed indicator spinner while searching repositories
• Set a minimum size for the main window
• Changed a number of keyboard shortcuts to prevent clashes
• Email now supports all email clients (PDF attachments only supported by Mail and Entourage)
• Email URLs no longer contain proxy info
• Attached PDFs are now added to on a new line in a new mail message
• Webview status now indicates when a modifier key results in opening a link in a new (background) tab
• Filterbar now resets when switching between groups
• Import and export menu now sort alphabetically
• Fixed crashes that could occur while hiding the inspector
• Fixed rating in journal section
• Fixed some memory leaks during the upgrade process
• Fixed an issue where certain PDF would lead to crashes during import with Spotlight comments
• Fixed an issue where double clicking on a field in the author or journal inspector would not switch to editing mode
• Fixed an issue where menus were not properly replaced after fullscreen mode
• Fixed an issue where deleting duplicates would crash Papers
• Fixed an issue where clicking in the source column header would crash Papers
• Fixed editing of truncated tokens in searchfields
• Fixed editing issues with tokenfields
• Fixed several issues with the Google Scholar plugin
• Fixed the JSTOR plugin to include all authors
• Fixed title searches in the Scopus plugin
• Fixed the Connotea importer to ignore authors without lastnames
• Fixed matching in the citeseer plugin
• Fixed smart collection rule on author last name in French version
• Fixed an issue where fetching spotlight comments during PDF import could crash Papers (thanks to Adam Maxwell)
• Print button in webpages now works
• Selecting the Library menu item will now correctly change back the menu
• Improved AND searches for authors, title and object in ADS search plugin
• Added measures to prevent scrolling the preview to top when switching between applications
• Creating a new untitled paper now automatically sets the imported date
• PubMed plugin now correctly removes the right characters instead of adding spaces
• Scopus plugin now correctly fetches next batch of results
• ACM plugin searching is now much improved
• WOS plugin searching is now much improved
• WOS plugin now allows searching on language and document type
• ENW importer now imports URLs and DOIs
• RIS importer now ignores Y2 field if PY has already set the year
• Bookends exporter now exports PDF links properly
• Bookends exporter now contains workaround against nil-object error
• Bookends exporter will now always export selected papers only
• Google books plugin now correctly parses author names
• Added the possibility to change the URLs used by the Pubmed and MathSciNet search plugins
• Papers now recognizes citmgr files
• Fileview now accepts PDF with .PDF extension
• Disabled unreliable PDF link detection
• Improved retrieving of papers in the mathscinet plugin
• Replaced deprecated method calls for retrieving RSS feeds
• Added Spanish translation thanks to Francisco Cabello Luque
• Added simplified Chinese translation thanks to He Yunxuan
• Added optional Chinese Biological Abstracts plugin
• Several corrections in German and French translations
• Registration details are now automatically propagated to all users of a machine
• The Papers Contextual Menu item is now officially deprecated


• Papers 1.8
• Added a JSTOR search plugin
• Added a Scopus search plugin
• Added French localization (thanks to Corentin Cras-Méneur and Joselyne Rochaud)
• Added German localization (thanks to Christoph Schmitz and Marian Stiehler)
• Tabs can now be opened in the background by holding down the alt/option key, this prevents it from being selected after opening
• Imported Papers now correctly show up after import
• Pasted text in the search field is no longer split or filtered from numbers
• Pasted text with prefix doi: is now automatically recognized as a DOI
• Improved merging of journals, also based on ISSN and abbreviation
• Improved recognition of prism data in webpages
• Improved recognition of DOIs in webpages and PDFs
• Improved auto-fill of form data
• Improved status update during import
• Fixed a bug in importer plugins where files of wrong formats would lead to crashes
• During matching the DOI is no longer automatically inserted if the search engine is Web of Science
• Prevent a crash by disabling menu control of inspector tabs if inspector is hidden
• The Word2008 exporter should now correctly export on non-english systems
• Papers will no longer ask what to do if a temporary paper is imported and the tab is closed
• Papers now remembers the one/two page up layout for PDFs in tabs
• Papers now remembers the width of the source column
• Automatic metadata retrieval no longer prevents subsequent matching
• Papers now automatically resolves the doi from the open url dialog if the doi is prefixed with doi:
• Links to a journal's homepage, etocs, author guidelines and archives, and links to an author's homepage and Google Scholar are now opened within a tab in Papers instead of being opened in the external browser
• After downloading a PDF from a webpage it is now possible to use the back button
• The Endnote importer now also deals with names in the format Firstname Lastname
• Status is now displayed correctly when pdf is open in tab or fullscreen
• Pubmed plugin now supports searching for date ranges in the format 2003-2004
• Added measures to prevent the inspector taking over the whole window
• Manually entered author names are no longer split if started with ", ( or {
• Double-clicking blue tokens in the search fields no longer trim the field name
• Pasted author lists, separated by a semi colon are now correctly split up
• Added first and last author search to ADS
• Added a workaround to prevent a crash in the arXiv plugin during matching of certain papers
• Google Scholar plugin now switches to citation ranking when a year(range) is specified
• Inspectors can no longer be collapsed by dragging as this doesn't allow for restore via the menu
• Fixed the addition of author names during matching using the Google books plugin
• Fixed searching for year (ranges) in Google Books plugin
• Fixed matching using the Google Scholar plugin
• Fixed a bug in the ADS plugin which would give blank items with certain queries
• Fixed a bug in the Pubmed plugin where empty initials would give problems
• Fixed a bug in the IEEE plugin where empty last names would give problems
• Fixed a bug where empty data from WOS searches could crash Papers
• Fixed a bug where unmatching a paper could crash Papers
• Fixed a bug where closing a temporary tab that is not in front would crash Papers
• Fixed a bug that could lead to Papers to freeze during autocompletion of selected text
• Fixed a bug on Tiger that could lead Papers to crash when closing a collection
• Fixed a bug on Tiger where PDF would not scroll to the top
• Fixed a bug where copying tokens from the search field would lead to an exception
• Fixed a bug where typing accented characters in the notes panel in fullscreen mode
• Fixed a bug where the filename settings could insert a wrong separator
• Fixed a bug in the WOS importer where the first letter of the author's last name was missing
• Journal names and abbreviations are now capitalized by the WOS importer
• The BibTeX exporter now escapes illegal characters in URLs and DOIs
• The Bookends exporter now exports the journal abbreviation as the default journal title
• The arXiv plugin now allows proper limiting to certain categories
• The WOS plugin now retrieves the issue number


• Papers 1.7
• Added a Word2008 bibliography export plugin
• Added a MathSciNet search plugin (thanks to Martin Hairer)
• Added a Project Muse search plugin
• Added a IEEE Xplore search plugin
• Added an ACM search plugin
• Papers can now retrieve DOI metadata during import of PDF files
• Papers now recognizes metadata in the webpage of a publisher and allows you to add it to the paper
• Papers now guesses the filetype when importing textfiles or files without an extension
• Papers now supports auto-completion of web forms
• Papers now prevents sleep and dimming of the display in fullscreen mode
• The Google Scholar plugin now generates complete citation data when used during matching
• Papers can now import large files ( > 15.000 entries)
• Papers now imports spotlight comments for PDFs
• Papers now warns the user if a document is locked, cannot be copied or printed
• Added preventive measures to avoid triggerhappy spider traps
• Added cleanup of title retrieved when opening a page from browser
• Improved caching and merging of existing entries
• Improved speed and duplicate detection of importing papers and search results
• Improved dragging of groups in sourcelist
• Improved detection of internet connection
• Improved handling of (proxy) authentication of webpages
• Much improved error handling and reporting
• Added the option to create a blacklist of urls that shouldn't use the ezproxy
• Added help center to the source column for easy access
• Added more helptips
• Added extra checks to prevent black square pdf bug on Tiger
• Added option to command-click a link in a webpage to open the link in a new tab
• Outgoing links clicked from inside PDFs are now handled within Papers
• When closing a temporary tab the question to keep or delete is now asked while the paper is still visible
• When closed the next instead of the previous tab is now selected
• Tabitems now update the title when changed
• Tabs can now be dragged to the source column to add the paper to a group
• Update credential use and storage for password protected sites
• Papers presents an extra warning when selecting the delete original option
• Papers now correctly remembers the last read position if preference is set
• Escape will no longer close HUD panels in fullscreen mode
• Preview no longer scrolls to old position when Papers is reactivated
• Preview now updates when PDF is replaced
• Dragging references from Papers works now better
• Short author string now correctly leaves away et al. in case of only one author
• Auto-completion will no longer change the contents of the text but only show a popup menu
• Much more reliable editing of author names, keywords and publication types
• Matching will no preserve existing keywords
• Added the option to right-click on search results during matching and opening them in a new tab
• Added the ability to tab between fields in the smartgroup setup sheet
• Movies and postscript files are now correctly downloaded
• Plugins now show correct batch numbers being fetched
• PubMed plugin now leaves complex queries alone if token contains parentheses
• Web of Science plugin now lists article no as page numbers when pages are not available
• ADS plugin now deals better with malformed XML returned from ADS
• ADS plugin now supports proper DOI searches
• Fixed the link out from Web of Science to the article record
• Fixed dragging of images into the inspector
• Fixed an issue where clicking in the inspector would incorrectly allow editing
• Fixed a crash in autocompletion
• Fixed autocompletion of journal names containing a space
• Fixed a bug where setting the cover image would crash Papers
• Fixed a bug where showing authors or journals via menu shortcuts would not allow a return to the library
• Fixed a bug where turning file renaming off would prevent downloading of new PDFs
• Fixed a bug where Science Direct pages wouldn't allow the PDF to be downloaded the first time
• Fixed a bug where some papers couldn't be matched using Google Scholar
• Fixed a bug where DOIs split over two lines were not recognized automatically
• Fixed a bug where urls with parentheses would not open properly
• Fixed a bug where the first time the auto-match would not work
• Fixed a bug where Papers would incorrectly tell that a paper would already be present during matching
• Fixed a bug where selected text would not be copied the first time in the matching module
• Fixed a bug where the open with menu shortcut would not work if the menu had not been shown before
• Fixed a bug where holding the delete key in the trash would repeatedly play the trashcan sound
• Fixed a bug where installing a new plugin would lead to strange duplication of smart groups
• Fixed a bug where printing of a tab would be disabled with a search engine selected
• Fixed a bug where dragging text into a tokenfield would hang Papers
• Fixed a bug where undoing the insertion of a new group would hang Papers
• Fixed a bug where changing the viewmode during editing would crash Papers
• Fixed a bug where closing a temporary tab that was loading would crash Papers
• Fixed a bug where emptying the trash could crash papers
• Fixed a drawing bug that would lead to lines drawn through pages
• Fixed a number of bugs in the arXiv plugin (thanks to Martin Hairer)
• Fixed the RIS importer plugin and improved year parsing
• Fixed the RIS importer plugin to not import duplicate authors in case of redundancy
• Fixed the ENW importer plugin and improved year parsing
• Fixed the BibTeX importer to be more strict
• Fixed a redrawing glitch in the filterbar on 10.5.2
• Reduced the default volume of the startup movie sounds
• Increased the default tab size
• Improved escaping of symbols in BibTeX importer and exporter


• Papers 1.6
• Added an arXiv search plugin with support of the Clay Institute for Mathematics
• Added a NASA-ADS search plugin
• Added a Citeseer search plugin with help of the European Bioinformatics Institute
• Added a CSV-exporter plugin
• Pubmed plugin now automatically recognizes PMIDs
• Pubmed plugin now sets the first initial as the firstname if no firstname can be found
• Search progress is now displayed more prominently
• Inspectors now scroll the active field to the visible area
• Improved editing of inspectors after double-click
• Improved display of firstname + initials combinations
• Improved import of Author PDF and number of pages metadata from PDFs
• Improved detection of links, DOIs, ADS and arXiv IDs during matching
• Improved parsing of links that previously failed (like some jstor urls)
• Improved parsing of EndnoteXML files during import
• Much improved detection of PDF links in webpages
• Merging Authors and Journals now keeps covers and mugshots
• Custom images are now scaled proportionally
• Added the option to make the Citekey (part of) the filename for PDFs
• Added the option to create alphabet subdirectories based on the first letter of author and journal names
• Added support for copying multiple summaries and references
• Added better warnings when trying to use WOS in combination with ezproxy setups
• Added a citekey column in the main tableview
• The WOS gateway url can now be modified using a texteditor
• Corrected the outgoing url from WOS
• Innactive springloaded buttons no longer listen to mouse events
• Better support for PDF downloads with alternative mime-types
• Opening one from the list of papers in the journal inspector now correctly opens that Paper
• The Pubmed plugin now correctly adds language and publication types
• The library is now properly selected in the source list after an upgrade
• Added extra measures to prevent accidental deletion of search term tokens
• Added extra measures to prevent search results ending up in the wrong group
• Removed troublesome edit option in search token menus on Leopard
• Corrected a visual glitch where the cornerview of the outlineview was appearing white
• Papers now correctly keeps the filenaming during editing if the rename option is turned off
• BibTeX importer now correctly sets a paper as read
• Fixed a bug that occurred during unmatching and reverting a paper to its empty state
• Fixed a bug where certain Google Scholar searches would lead to x found, 0 shown
• Fixed a bug where matching would fail if the firstname of an author was lacking
• Fixed a bug where leaving a comma after an authors name would lead to a crash
• Fixed a deadlocking bug where Papers would freeze while updating the spotlight database
• Fixed a bug that could crash Papers upon the first run or directly after an upgrade
• Fixed the installation instructions


• Papers 1.5.1
• Much improved speed of handling spotlight changes, resulting in faster import, editing of papers and emptying of the trash
• Added a CHM ebook to PDF converter/importer
• Auto-completion in search plugins is now off by default
• Auto-completion in search plugins no longer suggests terms with a different prefix
• Importing PDFs by drag-and-drop will always prefer the default importer
• Importing PDFs now checks for PII and DOIs in the title metadata
• Improved explanation why to ignore PDF metadata during import
• Improved writing of spotlight metadata
• Newly selected items in the tableview are now scrolled to visible
• Newly downloaded files are now registered with a proper relative path instead of the full path
• Updated the links in the topics menu of the Help Center
• Changed the behavior of flagging and marking as read when multiple items are selected
• Changed the keyboard shortcuts for merging and splitting authors and journals
• Internet connection warning can now be ignored by setting the ignoreConnectionWarnings preference setting
• If a library is missing Papers now list the previous location correctly
• Non-default store location chosen during setup will now be honored
• Right click menus in tableviews now support multi-selection
• Generation of Endnote keys and export now works properly
• Copying and drag and drop of BibTeX citekeys now supports multi-selection
• BibTeX citekeys are now added to the spotlight database so you can search them
• Added a remove from collection contextual item
• Added the ISO8601 standard date format option
• Switching to edit mode now selects the first editable field in the inspector
• The paper inspector now correctly displays the affiliation if present
• The read button is now correctly updated when a paper is marked as read
• Editing the inspector is now automatically ended when opening a tab or going fullscreen
• Journal names are now properly wrapped in the inspector
• Automatic continuing after a single hit during matching has been removed
• The searchfield now resets itself when switching between collections
• Too long author names are now caught and truncated
• Replaced times read by a read and unread parameter in the smart collections
• Added a matched and unmatched parameter in the smart collections
• The shortcut for the open with menu now always works
• Matching is now stricter to prevent false duplicate detection
• Matching now correctly adds keywords and publication types
• EZProxy setting is now correctly ignored when using the NCBI eUtils
• The searchresult tableview no longer scrolls to the top after each search
• Fixed a bug in the PubMed search engine where keywords would be empty
• Fixed a bug where marking papers as read was not properly executed
• Fixed a Safari3 specific bug where downloaded PDFs through an ezproxy setup ended up corrupted
• Fixed a Leopard specific bug where emptying the trash would freeze Papers
• Fixed a Leopard specific bug where flagging items would freeze Papers
• Fixed a Leopard specific bug where merging authors would freeze Papers
• Fixed a Leopard specific bug where tab completion in tokenfields would freeze Papers
• Fixed a Leopard specific bug where auto-completion in tokenfields would freeze Papers
• Fixed a Leopard specific bug where starting a search with uncompleted tokens would freeze Papers
• Fixed a Leopard specific bug where ratings could no longer be adjusted in the tableview
• Fixed a Leopard specific bug where the import and export menu would be inserted one menu item too high
• Fixed a Leopard specific bug where re-editing the smart collection would state No Value in the operator popup
• Fixed a Leopard specific bug where command-alt-O would not open the PDF in preview
• Fixed a bug where Papers would crash if a spotlight warning was cancelled
• Fixed a bug where files within the Papers library are referenced by their full path
• Fixed a bug where database relocation could end in a continues loop
• Fixed a bug where PDF files could not be added, updated or removed in tabs
• Fixed a bug where initials were not properly displayed in author name lists
• Fixed a bug where next batches fetched using the WOS search plugins would result in duplicates
• Fixed several bugs in the smart collection editing window
• Updated to the latest eSellerate SDK
• Updated several links in the help files and improved compatibility with external browsers


• Papers 1.5
• Support for additional search engines via a plugin architecture
• Added a Google Scholar search engine plugin
• Added a Google Books search engine plugin.
• Added a Scopus search engine plugin.
• Added a Web Of Science search engine plugin.
• Added an iPapers import plugin
• Plugins can now be disabled to hide them in the menus and source lists
• Plugins can now autocomplete search terms in the textfields
• Duplicates are now recognized during import and can optionally be discarded
• It is now possible to import papers directly into a group through drag and drop
• After import Papers switches now to the Last import tab
• Manual groups now show its papers plus those of its children groups
• Inspector can now be hidden
• Improved and standardized layout of inspectors and preview of recent entries in Author and Journal section
• Improved sorting of certain columns like volume and year
• Deleting a Paper now correctly removes it from the list
• Edits are now more accurately kept in sync throughout the UI
• Editing now correctly leads to updating of the spotlight database
• Matching now correctly leads to updating of the spotlight database
• Matching now returns to the selected folder after completion
• Added more keyboard navigation to matching module (use enter to match, escape to cancel)
• Added citekey field to paper inspector
• Improved handling of not being authenticated in Web of Science plugin
• Significantly improved handling of key events, removing the initial delay after the first keystroke
• First column now shows whether a PDF is present
• Scopus plugin settings are now correctly diplayed
• Endnote key copy now also supports multiple papers
• Added preference option what info to copy when a Paper is dragged
• Added preference option to display unread papers in bold or not
• Unread/Read Papers are now correctly marked
• The single hit during matching warning can now be suppressed
• Fileview no responds to the delete key to delete a PDF
• Downloading PDFs for a paper with a missing PDF no longer if you want to update the PDF
• Printed column can now be hidden
• Keywords are now entered in smart groups using a tokenfield with autocompletion
• Authors, Journals and Papers are now more aggressively merged
• More complex date queries are now supported in the Pubmed plugin
• Downloading recent articles in authors and journal section no longer transfers focus to the list of results
• New papers are now properly selected
• Journal summaries are now merged with the notes
• Journal and author notes inspectors now also show the edit/save buttons
• Match and search groups now indicate No results if no results are found
• Fixed Leopard specific rendering issues of toolbar buttons
• Fixed a Leopard bug where the automatic popup menu in the matcher would no longer work
• Fixed a bug where tokenfields could not insert new tokens
• Fixed a wrong connection where the next paper arrow was connected to the new paper action
• Fixed a visual glitch where tokenfields are partially displayed or use to much space
• Papers can now be deactivated on a computer to enable migration to a new Mac
• Toolstrip buttons now act as springloaded buttons and can present more options
• Papers in author, journal and match section are now sorted on publication date
• Empty Journals and Authors can now be deleted
• Closing the preferences no longer gives a false warning that things have changed
• Papers now checks whether you have added the %@ parameter to your the ezproxy url
• Added a variety of new copy options, including reference, summary, BibTeX citekey and Endnote citation
• Added ability to email multiple papers, in the form of PDFs, URLs, references or summaries
• Added more open URL options in toolbar buttons
• Added more email options in toolbar buttons
• Added search field in the help center to search the forum
• Added option to rebuild spotlight index in the advanced prefs
• Added option to cancel matching if Paper already present in library
• Added keyboard shortcuts for editing and saving of info
• Added move-to-group and show-in-group menu options.
• Added auto-completion of authors, keywords, journals and publicationtypes in inspectors.
• Added citation count and printed fields to inspectors.
• Much more reliable editing of images and ratings in inspectors.
• Better editing of authors, keywords and journals in inspectors, including cleanup of empty papers.
• Keywords are now sorted alphabetically.
• Improved pasting and parsing of copied authors and keywords.
• Improved tabbing through inspector fields.
• Improved filtering of added search terms in the matching module.
• Matching modules now asks whether to match with only one result.
• Added a citation count and printed column.
• Added printed and non-printed options to smart collections.
• Unread papers are now shown in bold.
• The font size of the tables can now be customized in the preferences.
• All available tablecolumns are now shown in journal and author section.
• Unmatching now offers the option to revert the Paper to an empty state.
• Removed the : separator from the filename options for compatibility issues.
• Added the lastname only without initials naming option.
• Added the option to use PDF metadata during PDF import (now off by default).
• If only last author is shown and it is equal to et al. the one but last author is shown instead.
• Papers is now supports https connections with bad certificates.
• Papers now handles downloading of gzipped pdfs with the extension .pdf.gz.
• The fullscreen zoomslider now supports the doubleclick zoom reset and Papers now correctly remembers the zoomfactor.
• Printing in fullscreen now behaves correctly.
• URLs in the inspectors are now displayed shortened in displaymode.
• Cleanup now more effectively removes old search results.
• Splitview in the searchgroups now correctly stays collapsed.
• If marking papers as read is set to manual also the last read date is co-updated manually.
• Papers sorted on journal or year now subsequently sort on author name.
• Added safety check to prevent infinite loop if user decides to cancel update of PDF.
• Moved the Open URL command in the webview tab to the general File menu.
• Improved behaviour of SelectAll menuitem.
• Added warnings if trying to import too large files (currently >2500 records).
• Added bookmarks menu in Open URL window.
• In case of missing PDFs Papers now offers you to redownload the paper if their is a URL available.
• Removed sound upon network availability change, triggered for instance after wake from sleep.
• Rows in the smart collection predicate editor now correctly reset formatters.
• Pubmed plugin now supports searching for date ranges in the format 1980:1982.
• Improved error handling and presentation
• Full-screen mode now remembers the view mode and which panels are visible
• PDF preview now better updates when collection is changed or papers are deleted
• Disabled Open in Papers link in Apple Mail as it fails in HTML-formatted emails
• Papers now warns the user when the spotlight indeces are missing
• Papers now ask confirmation before deleting a collection
• Queries are now only separated on AND not and
• Disabled colon as separator in searchfields
• Pubmed now properly retrieves articles sorted on publication date
• Pubmed now more aggresively strips trailing characters and spaces from titles and journal names
• Completely redesigned the introduction and upgrading process to bring more reliability and speed
• Tableviews now select type-ahead to select items starting with the keystrokes you type
• It is now possible to set an external application like Acrobat Reader or Skim as the default PDF viewer instead of opening a new tab within Papers
• Added several contextual menu's
• Papers now correctly remembers changed library settings after a restart
• Papers now correctly indexes all authors, keywords and journalname in the All category
• Papers now correctly indexes a PDF after it has been downloaded
• Papers now displays the issue in the publication string
• Papers now generates citekeys that are guaranteed unique and persistent within the library
• Papers now copies the name of authors and journals instead of a link
• It's now possible to erase the journal while editing a paper
• After matching authors, keywords and journals are now correctly added
• Newly created papers, authors and journals are now correctly selected
• Removed continuous rezooming of PDFs while searching
• Command-W now closes the panels and fullscreen window
• Updated Endnote exporter to correctly set the type/creator code for Endnote7 XML files
• Updated Endnote exporter to contain the uri in the label field such that Papers can generate citations that can later be formatted using Endnote
• Updated Endnote exporter to correctly space the initials
• BibTeX importer and exporter now try to deal better with Chapters
• BibTeX importer and exporter now sets whether a paper has been read and how it has been rated
• BibTeX importer now correctly handles middle names
• BibTeX importer now correctly identifies authors separated by "AND"
• BibTeX importer now filters \textln{} in title, abstract and journalname
• BibTeX importer now recognizes \url{} entries in the note and notes fields
• BibTeX importer now supports the adsurl field
• BibTeX importer better handles newlines characters
• BibTeX exporter now exports date-added and date-modified
• BibTeX exporter better handles pages formatted as D-31--33
• Fixed a bug that could crash Papers when opening a 4th PDF fullscreen
• Fixed a bug where deleting the trash would freeze the program
• Fixed a bug where going into fullscreen mode would crash the program
• Fixed a bug where indexing certain PDFs would lead to a crash in spotlight
• Fixed a bug where downloading different files than PDFs or DMGs would lead to a crash
• Fixed a bug where opening an existing paper from the journal section would lead to a crash
• Fixed a number of memory leaks
• Fixed Help HTML files to be displayed correctly in Safari 2
• Fixed selection behaviour when a subcollection is closed.
• Fixed a bug where matching would only go well the first time.
• Fixed a bug where printing would sometimes lead to crashes.
• Fixed some resizing and redrawing bugs in the matcher module.
• Fixed a display quirk where the overflow menu in LRFilterbar would popup in the wrong place (thanks to Peter Schols)
• Updated various typos and texts
• On Leopard tokens can now be double clicked to edit them
• On Leopard tableviews now automatically show a tooltip with the full text of the cell


• Papers 1.1.1
• Full text Spotlight searching through all your PDFs!
• Spotlight searching also for metadata searches, for much faster searching and better scalability
• After a fulltext search the word is now immediately highlighted in the PDF if found
• Papers now supports find next, previous and find from selection
• Opening PDFs after searching your library now triggers the same result if you open the PDF in a tab
• Much faster smart group functionality due to improved inner workings
• Improved and more reliable predicate building in smart groups
• Smart groups based on dates now work
• Created an online support forum
• Help center now leverages the online support forum, showing active topics through RSS feeds
• Strongly improved BibTeX importer based on BibDesk code - Thanks to Adam Maxwell and the BibDesk team
• Improved linking of PDF from BibTeX files (now also from JabRef)
• Improved export of BibTex accents
• Improved error handling during import and export, errors are now reported to the user
• BibTeX exporter no longer generates accented citekeys
• BibTeX importer now deals properly with wrong author names
• BibTeX importer now deals with keywords separated by semi-colons
• Endnote importer plugin now supports both Endnote 7 and 8+ XML files in one plugin
• Endnote exporter plugin now supports both Endnote 7 and 8+ XML files in one plugin
• Inspectors now support drag and drop, and copy-paste in the author, keyword and publication type fields
• Author tableview now remembers sort order
• Author inspector now correctly shows email address
• Unified author correspondence address and affiliation
• You can now delete authors and journals that don't have papers attached to them
• Author and journal images now correctly accept dragged and dropped images
• Replacing a PDF now results in the same filename is the previous PDF
• It is no longer possible to match papers of which the PDFs have gone missing
• Preview is now updated after deleting a paper
• Better updating of currently selected paper upon unhiding preview
• The progress indicator in the matching module now hides when no search is ongoing
• Fixed an important bug where merging of authors could lead to database corruption
• Fixed a bug where dropping PDFs on the papers icon would lead to crashes or freezes
• Fixed a bug where typing only a space in the PubMed search window could result in freezes
• Fixed a bug where smart groups for journal names would not respond anymore
• Fixed a bug where notes taken in fullscreen view would appear white in the inspector
• Fixed a bug where the up and down arrows would not function in the inspector view
• Fixed a bug where entering a custom journal name would always lead to the Bioinformatics cover to be set


• Papers 1.0.2
• Papers now honours the setting not to generate subdirectories
• Papers now works with EZproxy systems
• Papers now automatically creates database backups when it does repair and renaming checks
• Improved reliability upon updating file locations
• Improved stability of editing authors, keywords and publication types
• Adding authors manually now supports the syntax "Griekspoor, AC and Groothuis, T and Voorhoeve, M and...."
• Adding Publication types and keywords now also support the " and " syntax for adding tokens
• Fixed redrawing issues while editing tokenfields in inspectors
• Fixed a bug where journals found in Pubmed searches could get mixed up
• Fixed a bug where the Pubmed search would continue to fetch the next results beyond the limit
• Fixed a bug where Papers would link to the comment instead of the original article or vice versa
• Fixed a bug in Pubmed searches that would give troubles if the Journal name was longer than 255 characters
• Pubmed now correctly takes the publication date for an article from that of the journal issue
• Pubmed search interface now allows to format queries like Griekspoor AND Groothuis
• Pubmed search interface now recognizes when you type Griekspoor[AU] and will set the right term
• Pubmed searches now work with author names containing apostrophs (e.g. O'Connell KF)
• Added a year only column in the pubmed search
• Added the option to only view first and last author
• Tableviews are now correctly sorted depending whether first or last authors is shown
• Inspectors now shows all authors even if tableviews show only show a limited number of authors
• Fixed the always show tabbar preference option
• Improved addition and replacing of PDFs in fileview
• Improved editing of notes
• Improved copy-paste in fullscreen notes panel
• Improved tableview selections after deleting papers
• Improved the open URL in browser functionality
• Improved behaviour when files are requested that Papers can't handle in webviews
• Password protected PDF no longer give troubles if previewed
• PDF files are now correctly deleted if trash is emptied
• Empty directories are now correctly removed from the library if the last entry is deleted
• Trashcan is correctly updated when a Paper is marked for deletion
• Fixed a bug where deleting papers could lead to a crash
• Fixed a bug where matching could lead to a crash and papers would loose track of the pdf
• Fixed a bug where choosing to delete a duplicate during matching could cause a crash
• Matching a paper no longer looses the date of import
• Imported PDFs now take Finder creation dates if not available in metadata
• Command-W now closes the preference window
• A new group is now automatically selected and ready to be renamed
• Inactive tableviews highlighted rows are now a bit darker to improve readability
• Papers now recognizes PDFs without the PDF extension but with a PDF filetype code set
• Papers should now better recognize Entourage as the default emailclient
• Papers should now better recognize Firefox as the default browserclient
• Papers remembers the size of the inspectors
• Papers remembers whether previews are visible or hidden
• Papers remembers the visible columns, their widths and sort order
• Papers remembers the page position if going to fullscreen
• Fixed a small exception when dragging Papers with missing PDFs
• Fixed dragging of PDFs from the file inspector
• Dragging papers from the tableview no longer moves the PDF file but creates an alias instead
• Collumns in PDF search tableview are now resizable
• Build in warnings and assistance when PDF files are missing upon opening
• Changes in the library settings are now better communicated to the user
• The splashscreens now hides when Papers is not the front most application
• Added a command key to the default open with menu item
• PDF views now react to both command
• and + to zoom in/out
• Go to homepage now works for journals
• Fixed the spotlight metadata link to the PDF
• Endnote exporter now correctly exports the path to the pdf
• Endnote exporter now exports the pmid as accession-number
• Endnote exporter now exports the full publication date
• Endnote exporter now exports the journal abbreviation as the default journal title
• Endnote exporter now exports the reference type if this info has previously been imported
• Endnote exporter now exports the record number if this info has previously been imported
• Endnote importer now imports the journal title preferably into the abbreviation field
• Endnote importer now imports the rec-number into the label field
• Endnote importer now imports the ref-type into the category field
• Endnote importer now imports the publication date
• Endnote importer now imports keywords
• Endnote importer now imports the PDF if it is stored in the related-url field
• Endnote importer now correctly imports files containing accented characters in their filename
• BibTeX exporter now correctly exports the path to the pdf
• BibTeX exporter now exports the reference type if this info has previously been imported
• BibTeX exporter now exports the citekey if this info has previously been imported
• BibTeX exporter now exports the firstname if available
• BibTeX exporter now exports the journal abbreviation as the default journal title
• BibTeX exporter now exports issue both as issue and as number
• BibTeX exporter now export accented characters correctly
• BibTeX importer now correctly skips comments lines
• BibTeX importer now imports the cite-key into the label field
• BibTeX importer now has improved import of accented characters
• BibTeX importer now correctly imports files containing accented characters in their filename
• BibTeX importer now correctly skips jabref comments
• Fixed a number of memory leaks
• Removed excessive logging
• Bonus: sharper images in splashscreen


• Papers 1.0.1
• Corrected a major bug where the deleteOriginal setting was ignored
• Lowered the level of the splashscreen so error messages can be communicated
• Improved matcher module which results in better updating of inspectors
• Better prevent editing in inspectors not in edit mode
• Prefs now shows /Papers part for location of library
• Fixed a bug in printing PDFs
• Fixed a problematic TIFF file


• Papers 1.0
• Added lots of preferences:
• check updates at startup can be switched on or off
• date and time formats can be choosen, and automatically default one is set upon first run
• source column size can be set to small
• inspector font sizes can be adjusted
• visual and audio effects can be turned on or off
• option to always show tabbar
• papers can now be marked as read either automatically or manually
• last read positions and zoomfactors can set to be remembered on a per paper basis
• the fullscreen window background can now be set transparent
• added ability set whether to automatically download new papers or not
• the format and number of author names to display
• set the number of recent papers to retrieve for an author and what query to use
• the format of journal names to display
• whether to automatically fetch recently published articles for a journal and how many
• the option to go to an authentication page to log into your library
• options to login and authenticate on custom website
• options to set a pubmed proxy server
• ability to manage plugins
• new and/or updated plugins can now be installed directly from mekentosj.com
• option to choose the location of the Papers folder
• option to keep files at original location or copy to papers folder
• option to leave original name intact or rename
• option to create subdirectories automatically on basis of journal, author or year
• option to choose how PDFs should be renamed based on metadata
• better database verification tools
• Added ability to open PDFs in other applications
• Added improved layout of source column with iTunes like groupings
• Added support for DOI searches in Pubmed
• Added rudimentary form of auto-matching based on DOI's found in PDFs
• Added a Go to Page option in PDF mode
• Added a Go to URL option in the Webview mode
• Added a Snapback function in Webview mode
• Added a Authenticate option in Webview mode
• Added additional first time instructions for main window and Pubmed use
• Significantly enhanced speed and reliability of opening tabs
• Strongly improved editing behaviour in inspectors
• Double clicking a paper in the authors inspector now correctly opens it
• For readability the tableview's inactive row color is now a bit darker
• Fixed an import bug that could delete authors and journals during import of search results
• Fixed open in tab routines for journals and authors
• Fixed several bug in fileview and loupe now shows new menu
• Fixed a number of bugs in the matcher module that make it more reliable
• Replaced the green plus signs for direct menu popups in the matcher module
• Added basic instructions to the matcher module
• Copied searchterms are now better filtered, leaving for instance dashes
• Links to PDF files are automatically detected in webpages
• Deleting an item now selects the one above in the tableview instead of scrolling to the top of the list
• Pubmed now removes trailing periods in titles and periods from journal names and abbreviations
• Right click on the source column should now work properly
• Clicking in the source column now correctly selects the main tab, but not if no row is clicked
• Tableview and source columns now have better drawing during drag and drop
• Renamed the first tab from Abstract to the more approriate Info
• Closing the smart group editor after clicking OK now correctly handles renaming
• New smart groups now by default exclude papers in the trash
• Improved tips and tricks window
• Added a "preview not available" message
• Added more instructions on how to register
• Fixed a bug where Any predicates in smart groups were reverted to All upon editing
• Fixed a bug where the pubmed search would not work if last term was not tokenized
• Fixed competitor button in Authors section
• Fixed a bug in the BibTeX importer plugin to deal with 8bit text files
• Fixed the weird resizing behaviour of the source column
• Fixed two bugs in the Endnote XML Importer plugin
• Fixed a bug in the ENW and RIS importer plugins


• Public Preview 3
• Completely revamped the import and matching procedures.
• Completely rewritten inspectors for much improved editing and elimination of layouting issues.
• Notes are now richtext, allowing for font changes, tabs, enters, even images.
• Totally revamped fullscreen reading, now with a notes and info panel, an iPhoto like controls at the bottom, and the fullscreen view no longer captures the whole screen, playing nice with multi-monitor setups and allowing for switching to other applications.
• Pubmed no allows fetching more than 30 results, also added a number of interface refinements.
• Drastically changed and simplified UI for the Authors and Journals section of Papers.
• Journals now show the most recently published articles automatically.
• The papers library data is now stored in the same folder as the PDF, in addition all links are now kept relative to the Papers folder which allows for copying and syncing between different computers.
• Added a cool progress indicator to show page loading of webpages.
• Reimplemented the textured window, fixing weird resizing bugs and crashes and optimizing display speed.
• Replaced all filterbars for better ones.
• Removed writing of unnecessary spotlight files.
• Fixed a bug in removing spotlight files.
• Importing now correctly merges journals and authors automatically.
• Orphan object and empty journals and authors are now removed upon quitting Papers.
• Updated the UI shown while downloading PDF files.
• Updated the UI shown while deleting Papers.
• Added forward and back buttons at familiar top left corner in web based tabs.
• Added menu option to match papers.
• Added menu option to locate a Paper using Google.
• Improved status display of library.
• Improved searchfield behaviour regarding case sensitivity and performance.
• Improved Pubmed query preprocessing.
• Improved shortcuts of menu items.
• Improved behaviour of last import folder.
• Improved drawing of borders around PDF pages.
• Smart group OR queries no longer include pubmed search results.
• Smart groups now build better queries in terms of performance.
• First tab now changes name according to selected section.
• Pubmed results can now be imported again by dragging them to the right group.
• User is now presented with a warning when PubMed is temporarily unavailable.
• Import button is hidden in Pubmed search when inappropriate.
• Cancelling a download now brings you back to the previous page.
• Opening webpages is now more reliable.
• Identified and fixed an issue where the database could become corrupted upon removal of an author.
• Included a basic built-in database verification and repair utility.
• Added a Connotea import plugin.
• Improved naming and icons of toolstrip items.
• Fixed updating of menuitems in tabs.
• Fixed two bugs in the Endnote XML Exporter plugin.
• Fixed several bugs in the RIS Importer plugin.
• Fixed several bugs in the BibTex Importer plugin.


• Public Preview 2
• Completely revamped the import and matching procedures.
• Added an import and exporter plugin architecture.
• Added import plugins for BibTeX, Endnote, RIS and PDFs.
• Added export plugins for BibTeX, Endnote and RIS.
• Spotlight integration, now all papers, authors and journals are fully indexed and searchable through spotlight in the finder.
• Improved file copying behaviour.
• Added a latest news link in the Help center to keep users up-to-date about papers news.
• "Save PDF in Papers" option will automatically be added in the print dialogs so that you directly save a PDF and add it in Papers from any app that can print.
• A system wide contextual menu is automatically installed that allows to open links from Mail, Safari and the finder directly in Papers.
• Implemented a new, flicker-free filterbar, that now allows combining fields.
• Improved UI layout of the Pubmed search engine.
• The search google scholar button in the authors pane now works.
• Deleting a paper now refreshes the trash bin to show that it is filled.
• Fixed a bug where the green plus button in the matcher module would cause crashes.
• Filterbar now correctly finds everything marked as Journal Article.
• The toolstrip now correctly shows the menu for all overflown items.
• Rating and Flagging now works like in iTunes, and can be done directly in the tableview.
• Smartgroups now work much better, especially with "Contains" and is no longer case sensitive.
• Smartgroups now support combining rules through All or Any (AND or OR).
• Smartgroups now supports the with or without PDF rule shortcut.
• Papers now works with urls of type papers://doi/doi_to_paper, papers://pii/pii_to_paper, and papers://pmid/pmid_of_paper.
• Red close buttons now correctly quits the program.
• New papers are now defined as all papers imported in the last week, will be adjustable in the preferences.
• Papers are now always editable, even when matched with a pubmed query.
• Secure websites not show a little lock in the store.
• When checking updates Papers only loads the what'snew info if there's a new version available.
• Improved filtering of licensing info to prevent mistakes of adding to much spaces during copy paste.
• Created a workaround to make PLoS ONE articles work with Papers.
• Password panels will now be shown when browsing the web and authentication is required.


• Public Preview
• Initial Release.

See also

Solving Problems