Re: [Skim-app-users] broken PDF '#' vs '%23' on two different computers

> On 10 Nov 2020, at 15:46, Schneider, Thomas (NIH/NCI) [E] via Skim-app-users > wrote: > > Christiaan: Thanks for looking at this. I told the journal about your > messages stored at > > https://sourceforge.net/p/skim-app/mailman/skim-app-users/?viewmonth=202011=10 > > Do you have a URL

Re: [Skim-app-users] broken PDF '#' vs '%23' on two different computers

Christiaan: Thanks for looking at this. I told the journal about your messages stored at https://sourceforge.net/p/skim-app/mailman/skim-app-users/?viewmonth=202011=10 Do you have a URL for Apple feedback that would be appropriate? Tom ___

Re: [Skim-app-users] broken PDF '#' vs '%23' on two different computers

I looked a bit further into this, and it does look to be a bug in Apple’s PDFKit. I also found this https://github.com/latex3/hyperref/issues/110 on the same problem. Apparently Apple in Catalina thinks it knows better than the writer of the PDF,

Re: [Skim-app-users] broken PDF '#' vs '%23' on two different computers

I think the bug is in the PDF, it looks like the # is escaped, and shouldn’t. It might be that some apps like Acrobat may unescape this, but that seems wrong to me (it would break URLs that are correct). Unfortunately I cannot check directly in the PDF data whether this is true, as it seems the

[Skim-app-users] broken PDF '#' vs '%23' on two different computers

Dear Skim users: Here is a strange case of a broken link in a PDF. It could be a bug in Skim or the website for a scientific paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2020.571881/full Get the PDF and look at page 14. Under SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL, click on the link.