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How does QuickLook create Thumbnails and Previews? With an update to Mints

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How to discover which QuickLook generator or app extension should be creating Thumbnails or Previews for different file types, using this new version of Mints.

November 4, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

A brief history of icons, thumbnails and QuickLook

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From the original Desktop databases linking files to distinctive icons, to the sophistication of QuickLook, how display of thumbnails for files has changed in Mac OS.

November 2, 2024 Macs, Technology

How Sequoia has changed QuickLook and its thumbnails

Have documents saved by your favourite apps lost their custom Thumbnails and Previews in Sequoia? Here’s what has gone wrong, and what you do about it.

October 31, 2024 Macs, Technology

A quick look at QuickLook and its problems

Thumbnails viewed in the Finder, and previews now supporting Live Text and more. But what if it runs into problems? Here’s how to diagnose and solve them.

April 5, 2024 Macs, Technology

How Rich Text can vanish in QuickLook

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You preview a major Rich Text document, which QuickLook shows as completely empty. Has something terrible happened, or is it just a four year-old bug?

August 3, 2022 Macs, Technology

Can you trust QuickLook in Big Sur?

It’s enough to make you and Edvard Munch scream: every QuickLook thumbnail and preview has rounded corners. They scream out the arrogance of the designer.

December 7, 2020 General, Macs, Painting, Technology

QuickLook thumbnails don’t always render JPEGs right

Strange moiré effects seen in some QuickLook thumbnails lead down another rabbit hole in what we thought was reliable code.

June 3, 2020 Macs, Technology

18 months on and Dark Mode still doesn’t work properly

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Obvious problems include QuickLook thumbnails and previews which display white text on a white background.

March 6, 2020 Macs, Technology

Finder icons and QuickLook: friends or enemies?

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Icons are a fundamental part of a graphical interface, and convey valuable information. Although QuickLook thumbnails can enhance, they can also conflict unless carefully thought out.

May 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 9 Bizarre bug in macOS

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Many improvements in the second release of Podofyllin, but there’s a weird bug affecting PDF thumbnail views which leads to synchronised scrolling.

February 20, 2019 Macs, Technology

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