Comments on: Mendeley Desktop v0.9.4 released

By: Mustaqil Ali

Mustaqil Ali — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:03:27 +0000

Hi Sebastian,

Good to hear that you’re finding the PDF viewer much more stable. I have just looked into this issue of yours and it appears to be isolated to the Debian and Ubuntu packages we offer and only when you try to export a PDF with highlighting present. I have filed a ticket about this on our internal bug tracker and we’ll look into having it fixed as soon as possible.

Sorry for any trouble that thist may be causing.

Regards,
Mustaqil

By: M

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:36:02 +0000

Is the automatic update system activated? I seem to be running the old still and I would like to move my library to another computer.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:02:30 +0000

Hi,
thanks for the update (pdf-viewer seems to be really stable now!).
I have just one little remark: Can’t export a pdf with annotation as soon as I highlight test in it (annotations are no prob). Definitely could do so with the old version. Only tested so far on Jaunty (64 bit), will test it on WinXP next week…

Cheers

Sebastian

By: Victor

Victor — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:23:13 +0000

Good points Mike, thank you. We’ll try to implement both of your suggestions for the next release.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:03:34 +0000

The pages are cached going ahead in the pdf, but not back! So scrolling back is pretty awful.

Also, still waiting for decent (basic even!) page navigation features (like go to last page).

By: ed

ed — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:43:07 +0000

Finally… thanks !

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:01:28 +0000

Finally… Linux repositories updated now!

By: Fred Emmott

Fred Emmott — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:14:28 +0000

There’s several reasons:

– We use Qt4 under the LGPL; this makes it very inconvenient (though not impossible) to legally ship statically linked binaries.

– Running with static vs running with dynamic builds have different issues; we don’t want to create more bugs.

– In general, we’d like to keep the number of builds (and therefore, versions we have to support) down; creating one build to replace with a second one isn’t something we’d like to do.

– It would increase the amount of time until you got proper dynamically-linked builds, as we’d also have to test the statically linked ones before releasing

We’re sorry for the delay in the Debian/Ubuntu packages; they should be quicker in the future, and they’re currently uploading – subject to any last-minute issues being found (or our office internet connection giving out :p ) they should be live within a few hours.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:48:01 +0000

Why not just package a statically-compiled version for all of the debian/ubuntu repositories until dynamically compiled versions are tested and available?

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:50:13 +0000

Hi Alan,

Thanks for your feedback and I think you have a fair point here. We weren’t to happy with that as well and are planning to have a release candidate preview build of bigger releases first which we promote more intensively so users desperate for new features can have a go. The optional auto-update is only set after the stable release is out for a couple of days and no big issues are reported to us.
We will always try to release Win/Mac/Linux generic at the same time but the repositories can still have a slight delay, even if there are no problems like now (still issues currently – updates will be posted on twitter.com/MendeleySupport).