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] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > >> On 24 May 2020, at 23:50, Carsten Bormann <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> On 2020-05-24, at 23:32, Steven Scott <[email protected] >> <mailto:[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 <tel: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] > <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users > <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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