(Archived) Chrome handling of PDFs and saving to EN

[terra72 0]

I use Evernote for professional research where I have to handle a lot of PDF documents (reports, papers, presentations etc). After switching to Chrome recently for unrelated reasons, I've encountered a problem with how it handles PDFs/Evernote. I've trawled the forum for an answer but I haven't been able to find an exact match.

When I open a PDF in Chrome (using the Chrome PDF Viewer plug-in), I'm unable to save this PDF to Evernote. Sometimes the print-to-PDF-save-to-Evernote trick works but more often than not it's a poor fix (wrong orientation or printing doesn't work).

The only reliable alternative is to turn off the Chrome PDF Viewer, save the PDF to the harddrive and then right-click on the file and use "Open With >> Evernote"

Or I could switch back to Safari where this works flawlessly. Chrome is a better browser for me in all other respects. I even like the EN extension as it allows me to clip to EN in one step -- I just wish I could work out how to deal with the PDF.

Is there a neat solution I've missed? If not, is this a temporary problem or a structural issue with Chrome?

Thank you.

[jefito 5,589]

The only reliable alternative is to turn off the Chrome PDF Viewer, save the PDF to the harddrive and then right-click on the file and use "Open With >> Evernote"

Not sure about the tech details of Chrome vs. Evernote, but a simpler workaround might be to define an Evernote import directory, and do your Save As to that directory. At least it saves a step, though you still need to tag it.

~Jeff

[terra72 0]

Thanks for the suggestion. Not a perfect solution but better than my current setup (if I set the Evernote Import Folder as the default download folder in Chrome, it should be more efficient).

What's the best source on setting up an import folder?

[jefito 5,589]

Ahem -- may have gotten myself into trouble again, being as I am not a Mac user. Nevertheless, I found this post -- http://forum.evernote.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=7812&p=74362&hilit=mac+import+folder#p74362 -- that may be of help. Hope that it works for you.

~Jeff

[terra72 0]

Thanks again jefito for your suggestion but this isn't quite the solution I was looking for.

Any other suggestions? There must be many others who have issues with this limitation on using Chrome with Evernote.

Thanks

[Metrodon 2,184]

Without intentionally sounding facetious... use another browser?

[engberg 89]

We don't currently have a better solution for this, but it's on our list to investigate.

Thanks