Hi,
Setting the system-wide default does work, though is more of a workaround than 
a fix (but it'll do just fine for what I need, thanks!)
my .CFUserTextEncoding is:
0:0

Thanks,
Peter

On Aug 19, 2010, at 9:41 AM, Christiaan Hofman cmhofman-at-gmail.com 
|bibdesk-users| wrote:

> Also, just wondering. What do you cat when you type the following in "more 
> .CFUserTextEncoding" Terminal.app and hit enter?
> 
> Christiaan
> 
> On Aug 18, 2010, at 22:45, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
> 
>> 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
>>> 
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