Do you have Skim set as the default for PDF on your system? Then reset the PDF viewer pref in the Default Fields preferences of BibDesk to Default.
Christiaan On Aug 18, 2010, at 19:09, [email protected] wrote: > Hi, > > I just started having some strange behavior with bibdesk. If I set the PDF > viewer (in preferences>default fields>local file viewer) to "Skim" and try to > open a local PDF attached to a bibdesk entry, the window loses focus but Skim > does not open. This is the only place where things are acting up: When I set > it to anything else (Preview, Adobe Acrobat, etc), it works normally. In > Finder if I set a PDF to open with Skim by default, that works normally as > well. Right-clicking on the file in bibdesk and choosing 'open with > Skim > also works just fine. > > Additionally, in the dropdown list in bibdesk's preferences, the entry for > Skim does not have an icon next to it. In bibdesk's preferences file (plist), > the entry for 'BDSKDefaultViewersKey>pdf' is 'net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim'. > > I have tried a number of things to fix this, including reinstalling skim, > choosing Skim.app manually (rather than from the dropdown) in bibdesk's > preferences and deleting the 'BDSKDefaultViewersKey' branch in the > preferences plist. > > This is not a horrible inconvenience (I just need to right-click the file and > choose 'open with'), but I would like to figure out the cause. > > Any thoughts? > > Many thanks, > > Peter > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by > > Make an app they can't live without > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
