I, Librarian 4.0 further improves its PDF viewer

Published on 1453150800

The new version of I, Librarian contains many improvements and bug fixes. The most notable are performance and usability enhancements of the built-in PDF Viewer. The changes are not backwards compatible.

Reference Manager Enhancements

  • inactive Desk Projects are pushed to the bottom in Desk section
  • PDF notes and rich-text notes can be exported for all files in a Desk Project
  • stable links for opening an item in separate tab have been added in all list views
  • PDF icons have higher resolution
  • GUI design and themes were changed both in desktop and mobile version
  • more BibTex publication types are now supported
  • a Report type is now supported
  • more category filters have been added
  • CSL citation styles were updated
  • a time zone can be set in Settings
  • a full path to LibreOffice can be set in Installation Details on Windows
  • minor GUI improvements
  • the LDAP authentication has been improved
  • the caching was re-written to scale up to 100,000 records
  • Clipboard was re-written to scale up to 100,000 records
  • the folder structure in the library was changed
  • stop words are not removed from PDF index anymore
  • batch re-indexing tool is available to make previous PDF indexes compatible with the new search
  • some ilibrarian.ini values were changed, refer to ilibrarian-default.ini
  • a custom path to the library folder can be added in ilibrarian.ini
  • a custom path to the temporary folder can be added in ilibrarian.ini
  • PDFtk dependency was removed
  • PDFdetach from Poppler is now used to unpack PDF-attached files
  • a new PHP setting max_input_vars is now checked (recommended value is 10,000)

PDF Viewer Enhancements

  • PDF Viewer was optimized to display ~1,000-page PDFs
  • PDF pages have higher resolution of 192dpi
  • PDF pages are loaded earlier during the document scrolling
  • PDF text is copied to Clipboard immediately when a text box is selected
  • supplementary files are not directly attached to a PDF, instead a ZIP archive is created

Bug fixes

  • a bug where user settings where not applied properly was fixed
  • a bug where temporary directory access rights were not checked was fixed
  • a bug where IEEE search produced no results was fixed
  • a bug where batch uploading PDFs caused time out errors was fixed
  • a bug where auto-sign in failed was fixed
  • a bug where directory selection did not work on Windows was fixed
  • a bug where the whole-word expert search did not produce correct results was fixed
  • a bug where empty item lists were throwing JS errors in calendar was fixed
  • a bug where empty item lists were throwing JS errors in keywords was fixed
  • a bug where PDF note tooltips were not displayed was fixed
  • a bug where some extensions were missing in Windows installer was fixed
  • a bug where proxy password was exposed in settings was fixed
  • a bug where editors were imported as authors from CrossRef was fixed
  • a bug where journal names were not exported to BibTex was fixed
  • a bug where search results were not cleared in PDF Viewer was fixed
  • a bug where custom fields were incorrectly exported to BibTex was fixed


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