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From: Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala <hi@yagnesh.org>
Subject: Re: using an exported zotero library with org-mode
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Hello Myles,

Myles English <mylesenglish@gmail.com> writes:

> Do you know if it exports the collection's (pdf) files too or just a
> .bib file?

No it doesn't.

I wonder what is the purpose of retrieving pdfs from a collection., Since even
after retrieval from zotero, (in rdf format) Its hard to search/open a needed
pdf file.

In any case if retrieval of a collection is important, one easy way to it would
be using pyzotero[1][2].

> The front page says it can "synchronize BibTex file and Zotero
> collection" so can you really edit the .bib file and write the changes
> back to Zotero, from emacs?

No, It only syncs one way i.e., references from zotero collection to
bib. Nothing more.

Footnotes: 
[1]  https://github.com/urschrei/pyzotero
[2]  http://pyzotero.readthedocs.org/en/latest/#retrieving-collections

Yagnesh