@ Dan Hicks, I don't get a third party app opening from Preview, but I do get a mouse-over tooltip suggesting that the thing is a telephone number. So your suggestion that "it's a catalina thing" rings true.
[image: image.png] On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 4:44 PM Dan Hicks <[email protected]> wrote: > I’ve noticed this behavior for a while, possibly since updating to > Catalina last fall. It also occurs in Preview, so I suspect a recent > version of PDFKit introduced a “feature” that identifies things it things > are phone numbers and makes them clickable. > > Be well, > Dan > ----- > Dan Hicks > Assistant Professor > Cognitive and Information Sciences > University of California, Merced > > “Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their > reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who > are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the > world’s estimation.” — Susan B. Anthony > > Pronouns: they/them/their > > On May 24, 2020, at 4:38 PM, Steven Scott <[email protected]> > wrote: > > The table was made with LaTeX's plain "table" and "tabular" environment. > There is nothing in the LaTeX file that suggests these are phone numbers or > URN's. They're just numbers. > > On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 2:58 PM Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> >> On 24 May 2020, at 23:50, Carsten Bormann <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 2020-05-24, at 23:32, Steven Scott <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> When I click on that table in Skim "Skype for Business" opens up. I >> thought it might be MS spam, so I deleted Skype for Business. Now Skim >> opens "Facetime" when I click that column. I tried opening the same >> document in Preview, and clicking in the same spot does not open external >> apps. >> >> >> Apparently something interprets these as phone numbers and calls the >> topmost app on the stack of apps that have registered to call phone >> numbers. Plus-weird. >> >> Try >> open tel:16943 <16943> >> >> from the command line; you’ll get FaceTime (and would have got “Skype for >> Business” before). >> >> Grüße, Carsten >> >> >> That looks like a URN. Apparently the PDF contains a link for this in >> this table. Skim just relegates clicking links for URLs other than files it >> knows to the system. >> >> Christiaan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Skim-app-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users >> > _______________________________________________ > Skim-app-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users > > > _______________________________________________ > Skim-app-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users >
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