On 23 Jan 2009, at 6:02 PM, Derick Fay wrote: >> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:41:06 -0800 >> From: "Adam R. Maxwell" <amaxw...@mac.com> >> Subject: Re: [Bibdesk-users] Way to make Skim default only in >> Bibdesk? >> To: For general discussion about using BibDesk >> <bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net> >> Message-ID: <146ca8c9-ffe3-46a4-b6cf-a997933ab...@mac.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >> >> >> On Jan 22, 2009, at 7:49 PM, Robert Sloan wrote: >> >>> Is there a way to tell Bibdesk that I want it to open linked PDF's >>> with Skim by default whereas I want Preview to be the overall OS X >>> default PDF viewer? >> >> http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/manual/BibDesk%20Help_70.html#SEC131 >> >> You can also ontrol-click a linked file to choose from a list of >> available applications. > > A related issue actually came up for me yesterday. I'd say 85% of the > time I want to open PDFs linked from BibDesk in Skim. The other 15% > in Preview. But there are about a dozen apps. on my machine capable > of opening PDFs and they all pop up under the Open With... context > menu. Would it be possible to add a pref. for a secondary PDF viewer > i.e. so the context menu would be Open [implicitly with existing > default, as current behavior], Open with Preview [or whatever > secondary PDF viewer is set], Open with... > > (not a huge deal, but a nice convenience) > > --Derick
It's possible but it won't happen. The preference for a primary app is already very disputable. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
