Questions tagged [quicklook-plugin]
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Quick Look support for non-native video files (.avi, .mkv) on Mavericks
In the past, we've been able to get codecs for DivX/XviD/MPEG4 and support for containers like AVI, MKV in Mac OS X's Quick Look feature using Perian (as per this question).
As noted on the Perian site, development has ceased, and future versions…
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QuickLook for files with no extension or an unknown extension
I'm a programmer, and I find Mac's QuickLook a really great feature for quickly becoming familiar with a particular code base. Basically, I open up a Finder window in the directory where my code files are, I push the spacebar (to evoke QuickLook),…
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Is there a QuickLook preview for plain-text files with unknown extensions?
A similar question was asked here but the answer refers to something called QL Stephen, which only claims to preview files with no extension. I need something that will show previews of files with extensions that are unknown to the Finder. They…
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Is there a Quick Look plugin for epub?
Is there a Quick Look plugin to preview .epub (ebook) files?
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How can I see which QuickLook plugin is responsible for which data type?
Sometimes, QuickLook doesn't work right with certain file types, even though it should. Or a file now looks different in QuickLook than it used to.
How to find out which QuickLook plugin, or .qlgenerator, is responsible for which types, and what to…
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How to quickly know the dimensions of an image?
I am looking for a nice and quick way to display the dimension of an image from OS X 10.9. Presently, I have to open the image in photoshop and then enter a menu to know the dimensions. The process is too slow when I have to browse through dozens of…
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Are there QuickLook plugins that show more details about Applications? (.app)
Is there a better QuickLook plugin than the built-in for quicklooking applications?
Something that would show more of the info define in Foobar./Contents/Info.plist, like version number and bundle identifier for example would be ideal.
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Is there a Quick Look plug-in for ZIP files?
Is there a Quick Look plug-in that works with ZIP files, and that lists all the files contained in the archive? It is also fine if it lists at least some of the files.
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How can I create a Mac Address Book plug-in that also appears in Spotlight?
I've installed a great little app called PushDialer for my Mac that is letting my initiate iPhone calls to contacts remotely from my Mac.
It seems to work by installing an Address Book plug-in, so that when I click on a phone number in the Contacts…
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Lightweight Audio Waveform Viewer
I'm doing a large amount of music library updating and de-duplicating and evaluating, and I would like a piece of software that would allow me to quickly be able to view a waveform of a selected audio file.
I currently use Fission for editing, but…
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QuickLook file associations
Typing $ qlmanage -m plugins will give me a list of QuickLook plugins and their associated MIME type (at least I think it's a MIME type):
plugins:
org.openxmlformats.presentationml.slideshow -> /System/Library/QuickLook/Office.qlgenerator (32)
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As of macOS Big Sur, how do you see generator used by Quick Look?
Before macOS Big Sur, qlmanage -p by itself or qlmanage -p -d debugLevel showed which Quick Look generator was used for a given file. Now, no such info appears.
The man page for qlmanage also changed from
qlmanage -p [-d debugLevel] [-x] [-c…
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How to disable the ⌥-Space fullscreen Quick Look shortcut?
How to reproduce
When hitting ⌥-Space on a file or folder, Quick Look goes into fullscreen.
Wikipedia's "Quick Look" entry lists these shortcuts.
What I'm trying to do
I'd like to disable this (extremely dominant) shortcut because I want to re-use…
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Quick way to preview all pages in a PDF file
Is there a quick way or software for MacOS that makes it easy to quickly preview all (or many) pages in a single PDF file. Optimally, it would preview a PDF with multiple pages, similar to how Quick Look shows multiple files.
Currently in Quick…
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Is it possible to extend Quick Look to support h.265?
H.265 (or HEVC) is the official successor to H.264, with a significant reduction in bitrate for the same picture quality.
However it's not supported widely yet, including in Quicktime, iTunes or Quick Look in the Finder (cmd+space) and I haven't…
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