Yes you can automate it with applescript, but I'm not very familiar with
that system so I can't offer more advice.

  -k.

* On 2014-09-26 at 07:21, Antonio Fortin wrote:
> Thanks Ken. I’d like to be able to automate the importing of PDFs into
> BibDesk. I’m on a Mac, so what I do to add files to other apps is have
> Hazel (an automation assistant) monitor a folder and, depending on the
> tag a file has, it will open it in a specific app. That’s usually
> enough to import it into that app. However, with BibDesk, this doesn’t
> work - I get an error saying that the file isn’t a text file. I assume
> that this is because when one opens a file in BibDesk, it expects a
> library (.bib) rather than a binary file. Is there a different command
> I could use, or even an AppleScript, that would allow me to add a PDF?
>
> I’m currently migrating from Papers to BibDesk, so this would also be helpful 
> for that.
>
> Antonio
>
>
> On 26 Sep 2014, at 13:01, Ken Mankoff <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Drag and drop does this. Just drop between entries, not on a entry. 
>> 
>> Please excuse brevity. Sent from pocket computer with tiny non-haptic 
>> feedback keyboard. 
>> 
>>> On Sep 26, 2014, at 6:44, Antonio Fortin <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> Is there any way to import PDFs that don’t already have an entry in 
>>> BibDesk? The idea would be that, if the PDF has no metadata (or that 
>>> metadata is junk, which is usually the case, that this would just create a 
>>> blank entry with the PDF attached to it.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Antonio
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