Then it's at least not your encoding. My guess is that somehow your launch services database is corrupted, given that the icon is also missing.
Christiaan On Aug 19, 2010, at 17:12, [email protected] wrote: > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
