Dec 30
We are interested to find out exactly which Quick Look plugins our readers would like to see developed. Which plugins would be most helpful in your day-to-day use of OS X 10.5?
Please leave your thoughts in the comments of this post, and we’ll follow up with a “most requested” post soon.
Update: Comments have been closed — thanks for participating! A tally of those most requested will be posted soon.
December 30th, 2007 at 9:48 am
- synthaxic color for php
- Archicad (pln, pla) and Autocad (dxf, dwg) files
- Indesign (indd) files
December 30th, 2007 at 9:57 am
A web archive plugin would be nice, or maybe a DMG plugin along the lines of the folder and zip ones. Other than that, pretty much everything’s covered!
December 30th, 2007 at 10:10 am
Hi,
I’d like to see a Quick Look plugin for .webloc files so that they at the very least show the favicon from the website they’re from, or even better, a full preview of the page.
December 30th, 2007 at 10:10 am
I´d love to have some Quicklook Plugins developed, which are able to:
1.View Sourcecode from an HTML File (with Preview Function including Flash!)
2.View Additional PDF/general File information (like sites / Password and so on…)
3.View the content of iso-Images (or *.dmg an so on…)
4.View Covers from iTunes-Songs
5.Which can Edit rtf or text documents (like copy and paste an such things)
December 30th, 2007 at 10:29 am
a better website preview for webloc files…
December 30th, 2007 at 10:53 am
I use Gimp, so an xcf plugin would be really useful.
December 30th, 2007 at 10:53 am
preview for Websites with flash (swf not flv) integrated. Apple QT doesn’t support Flash (swf) anymore so i can’t quicklook Websites (offline) with Quicklook.
December 30th, 2007 at 11:41 am
> OmniGraffle
> Old Adobe Illustrator formats
> AppleWorks
> File Maker
> NeoOffice
December 30th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
a gif Plugin is very useful
December 30th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
.ogg
.ogm
omnigraffle
webloc
webarchive
December 30th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
A Quicklook Plugin for the business publishing application ‘RagTime’ ( http://www.ragtime-online.com/ ) would be freaking awesome!
I know that many RagTime users would highly appreciate that since this was a wish they had from day #1 after Leopard was released.
December 30th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
I forgot to mention: file types are .rtd and .rtt .
December 30th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
I’d like to see a dmg plug-in.
December 30th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
OmniOutliner
Gif, animated!
December 30th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
A plugin to display subtitles files :
- srt
- ssa
- ass
- sub
- idx
A plugin for comics that is not in conflict with the archive plugin
- cbr
- cbz
A plugin for audio files :
- flac
- ape
- shn
- mpc
- ogg
A plugin for .nfo files
And above all a Quick Look Plugin Manager to chose wich plugin is supposed to be used for each kind of file when there’s multiple choices.
December 30th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
standalone .swf
December 30th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
a sketchup plugin would be sooooo good!!!!
December 30th, 2007 at 4:53 pm
DIVX!!!
and other video formats
sketchup sounds good too
but divx mainly!
December 30th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
one more vote for swf.
December 30th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
Another vote for a SWF plugin
& a DMG plugin
December 30th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
All of the above plus
-WMA
-WMV
Unfortunately, we still need to install Flip4Mac…
December 30th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
Almost forgot:
-RAR files and other compression formats
December 30th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
preview of files and install locations inside of standard installer packages
December 31st, 2007 at 12:00 am
RagTime
TeXShop
December 31st, 2007 at 1:23 am
I would love to see SWF support in QuickLook. Viewing a web page with a Flash object in it looks great, SWF has full functionality. Perhaps just telling QL to treat the SWF as a web page would do the trick. I, however, have no idea how to do anything like that.
You guys rock, keep QLing it up. Peace.
December 31st, 2007 at 2:18 am
Animated GIF support
Still waiting for Preview to get animated GIF support rather than revealing the seperate frames.
December 31st, 2007 at 3:54 am
–> RagTime
–> Filemaker
December 31st, 2007 at 7:36 am
I would like a QuickLook plugin for comic preview:
.cbr
.cbz
thanks to all for this page!
December 31st, 2007 at 7:58 am
1. QuarkXpress
2. InDesign
December 31st, 2007 at 10:25 am
I’d like to see a plugin for standard Postscript (not EPS) files. The Georgia Tech library has an online printing system that only accepts Postscript files, and it would be nice to be able to preview them with QuickLook instead of using Preview to convert them to PDFs first (especially when they were PDFs to begin with).
January 1st, 2008 at 12:59 am
I would like to see a QL plugin that would allow you to change the default size of the QuickLook windows. I have a 12” Powerbook, and the QL window always seems to be too small when it is first opened. I adjust the size, but Leopard doesn’t remember the adjustment. This is annoying as I have to constantly increase the window size in order to get a a full view of the file that I am previewing with QuickLook. Thanks!
January 1st, 2008 at 8:54 am
Real Media files
.rmvb
.rm
January 2nd, 2008 at 12:38 am
Omnigraffle 5 has a quicklook option integrated.
Indesign : it works with Sneakpeek but it is not free
Gif : it works with Leopard
but : it would be ince for :
DMG, Sitx (it works with sit), ISO or Toast
January 2nd, 2008 at 3:18 am
Mindjet Mindmanager Files would be great.
.mmap
January 2nd, 2008 at 7:36 am
above all, a plugin for webloc and webarchive, a sorely missed feature in 10.5!
and after that
-RAR, DMG files and other compression formats
-RM and RMVB
-Quicklook plugin manager would be a greeeaaat idea
January 2nd, 2008 at 9:15 am
A Photoshop brushes plugin would be great!
January 2nd, 2008 at 9:23 am
For Java and Widget developers :
I would like to have QL to show .css and .xml files as a text. Also Manifest (MF) and .jad (for J2ME midlets) files as a text.
These shouldn’t even need a new generator, only a new association between file types and Text generator.
Then it would be nice to see content of .jar file ( classes with a hierarcy as in a zip file)
January 2nd, 2008 at 10:24 am
webarchive
January 2nd, 2008 at 3:11 pm
One vote for Webarchive and one for Webloc plugins.
January 2nd, 2008 at 3:29 pm
First of all, thanks for your great work!
Great would be:
for Flash: swf and fla
for Dreamweaver: dwt and css
for photoshop: viewer for brushes (!!!!!)
for illustrator: viewer for brushes (!!!!!)
indesign
January 2nd, 2008 at 9:48 pm
I think .webloc would be really nice
And animated GIF too !!!
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:16 am
++OGG (also OGM…)
January 3rd, 2008 at 11:35 am
… another vote for dmg files and better support for NeoOffice files like ods, sxc, and sxw
January 3rd, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Mellel and Scrivener support would be great!
January 4th, 2008 at 3:03 am
another vote for both standalone .swf and photoshop brushes
January 4th, 2008 at 6:54 am
Another one: CSS files. Hell, all it needs to do is pretend they’re text files.
January 4th, 2008 at 7:28 am
- SWF (Flash)
- FLA (Flash)
- OBJ (3D)
- C4D (Cinema 4D)
January 4th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
A quick look plugin to view Pages and Keynote documents from iWork 05
January 5th, 2008 at 4:55 am
What about .cbr and .cbz files?
January 5th, 2008 at 10:13 am
Appleworks.
Please?
Pretty please?
With sugar on top?
January 5th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
webarchive (first and foremost)
C4D
OBJ
3DS
By the way: SneakPeek plug-in from Code-line will view AI, EPS and INDD files. Hope this link isn’t considered spam.
https://www.code-line.com/software/sneakpeekpro.html
January 5th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
another vote for
Webarchive
January 5th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Another vote for Photoshop brush plugin! The only similar tool on Windows is called abrViewer.NET — a QuickLook plugin would blow this away!!
That’s 5 votes for this plugin now btw — does that mean we get it next week?
;-)
January 6th, 2008 at 6:14 am
quick look for:
.as (colored.. now we can open like text)
.swf
.fla
Adobe Flash cs3!!
January 6th, 2008 at 7:49 am
I would like to see a QL plugin that would allow you to past and copy text without opening the files just like Copernic Desktop in Windows…
January 6th, 2008 at 11:11 am
I would really like a .nfo-plugin.
January 6th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
AutoCAD DWF/DXF!! (with scroll and zoom?)