Bug: Paperpile Chrome extension won't save a local PDF opened in Chrome's viewer

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#1

Suppose that I download a PDF locally and open that PDF in Chrome’s built-in PDF viewer. E.g. the address bar might show something like

file:///C:/Users/My_Name/Downloads/visscher2008%20(1).pdf

When the Paperpile button in the Chrome toolbar is clicked, it says “Waiting for page to load…” and won’t save the PDF to Paperpile.

A screenshot of what I mean: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/sharex1982/ShareX/2017/04/chrome_2017-04-21_16-20-13.png

It would be good for someone else to replicate this issue.

#2

For security reasons we can’t read files from your hard drive (that’s a good thing).

Actually you should get a warning explaining that rather than “Waiting for page to load”. We’ll look into that why the message is not showing any more.

A workaround is to import the file by dragging it from your hard drive into Paperpile.