Do the following: in calendar double-click an appointment, opening the info-window for the appointment. Drag a pdf from DT global inbox and drop it in that window. Expected behaviour: the pdf will be dropped into the window and attached to the appointment. Actual behaviour: after a delay, a series of unrelated names, phone numbers and seemingly random numbers (see screenshot) appear.
Yes, in every sense - other than the random numbers, which I can’t yet place, the data are entries from my address book which bear no relation to the document or to one another (other than that each entry is correct in its own right, i.e. jim neumann rather than jim grunenberg)
No, they are completely unrelated to the pdf, are not included in the pdf, are not referenced in the pdf in any way. The names and phone numbers are from my contacts, the long strings of numbers appear random (still looking for any logic there).
FWIW, I just tested this and saw the same. Tried it with 2 different pdfs - two different lists of people, both lists from my Address Book.
Tried it in Fantastical - it created a file:// url to the pdf in the Finder
I must admit that I had already got as far as “that is weird”
@BLUEFROG you are right, the names and numbers are being added as invitees; the only phone number which is being added is actually lifted from the pdf (as such I was mistaken earlier when I said all data was unrelated to the pdf) - however, the country dialing code has been added (which was why I didn’t initially find it when I searched the pdf); the names are completely unrelated. At least one of the apparently random strings of number contains in it a telephone number lifted from the pdf (where it is formatted, but is lifted unformatted), the rest of the string appears random. The other strings still appear completely random to me. The document is not attached.
So, in some way the data passed from DT to calendar is being interpreted as invitees rather than as a pdf to be attached; presumably calendar then performs its own magic to change certain strings into people, phone numbers or whatever.
