@ 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.

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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
>>
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