Sonny Software

Hello all, If this is covered in the Tutorial/User Manual - then I missed it :oops: In the past, I scanned different chapters of the same book - i.e. I have several pdf's, which are all of the same "source". In setting up my library, I dragged and dropped all my files into BE12. I now have...

Re the above - I realise now, that what I needed to get my head around, was the 'link' between the Ref in Bookends, and the actual PDF. The attachment icon/paperclip, "seeing" the pdf as a scrollable document "in" Bookends, and my deleting a reference - which saw the actual pdf p...

Jon - many thanks for the reply. I have a much clearer understanding now, and know what to focus on in the manual.

I'm not sure exactly what you want to do (not exactly). Is your fear of duplication that Bookends will make a copy of each pdf? That won't happen if you tell Bookends to leave the pdfs where they are. You can attach the pdfs and have Bookends find metadata when it can, then Remove Duplicates if you...

Bookends can attach a pdf and leave it where it is. Uncheck the copy/move option in the attach dialog. Jon Sonny Software Hi Jon, I have the same workflow as the OP - so I am very relieved that this is possible, since it avoids another duplication of data [I now wish I had started everything in DTP...