I wish the Finder could...
...display thumbnails like Windows XP.
I love that view when searching through directories of images. Sure, OS X's column view's preview is nice, but I would love to have a thumbnail view for ALL images in a given folder. Its very handy.
Any idea is Tiger will have this feature?
Any 3rd party tools that can add this functionality?
I love that view when searching through directories of images. Sure, OS X's column view's preview is nice, but I would love to have a thumbnail view for ALL images in a given folder. Its very handy.
Any idea is Tiger will have this feature?
Any 3rd party tools that can add this functionality?
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Go to View Options, check the "Show icon preview" checkbox. Adjust the icon size all the way up to 128x128 for some pretty decently sized thumbnails.
Voila!
I use it on a folder that contains all my desktop backgrounds. I scale them all the way up to 128x128 and also turn on extra info so I can see the resolution of the image.
I also do this with all my icons I download. I store them in folders and then scale them all up to 128x128 so I can see al their lovely detail.
Sometimes I wish though that Mac OS X would give you previews of thumbnails of HTML pages.
Mike
In Windows, any JPG will render a preview, but in OS X, your files need to have a legacy resource fork atribute to get a thumbnail.
I have thousands of images that dont have resource forks on my server. When I look at them from XP, they display with thumbnails fine, but in OS X they just show up with their creator type icon (GraphicConverter, Photoshop, etc)
Originally posted by dstranathan
Its not the same at all.
In Windows, any JPG will render a preview, but in OS X, your files need to have a legacy resource fork atribute to get a thumbnail.
I have thousands of images that dont have resource forks on my server. When I look at them from XP, they display with thumbnails fine, but in OS X they just show up with their creator type icon (GraphicConverter, Photoshop, etc)
Shut up and do what Hobbes told you to do.
Originally posted by murbot
The shut up comment was really necessary, eh? Asshole.
Shut up.
Jeez, get it right you guys.
Originally posted by Kickaha
No, no, that's shut up child.
Jeez, get it right you guys.
OMG. Somebody has to have that thread saved somewhere. Classic Jack?.
Originally posted by murbot
Oh hell yeah, I have a PDF of that at home.
where can i get it?
Originally posted by Hobbes
Well, good news. It's been in OS X for a while now (since Jaguar, I think?).
Go to View Options, check the "Show icon preview" checkbox. Adjust the icon size all the way up to 128x128 for some pretty decently sized thumbnails.
Voila!
Why does't this work on pdfs as well?
Originally posted by JBL
Why does't this work on pdfs as well?
Speaking of, I wish the Finder could... that's a good question. It seems almost more a design choice than technical one... perhaps Apple suspected that most PDF were mostly text-based and previews weren't necessary? Or that a single image wouldn't be representative of what could be a multi-page document? I don't know. It'd be nice if image-centric PDFs would do 'em.
Originally posted by Hobbes
It'd be nice if image-centric PDFs would do 'em.
Even non-image pdfs. I find I download a lot of pdfs, and they often have computer generated names like jlowpelp.pdf or form321.pdf. If I could see a preview of them I would have a clue which ones to throw out without clicking one each one individually in the column view.
Originally posted by Hobbes
Well, good news. It's been in OS X for a while now (since Jaguar, I think?).
Go to View Options, check the "Show icon preview" checkbox. Adjust the icon size all the way up to 128x128 for some pretty decently sized thumbnails.
Voila!
That is a solution, however I have the same issue of downloading some images off the web and or email attachments, and OSX saves them without the actual picture preview just the generic 'preview' icon app pic. The weird thing in PS is that if you save as " jpeg" PS creates an actual icon pic thumbnail, but if you save for web "jpg" it creates a PS icon and no preview of the actual pic, even when in the column view in OSX. Kinda odd?
Originally posted by hypoluxa
That is a solution, however I have the same issue of downloading some images off the web and or email attachments, and OSX saves them without the actual picture preview just the generic 'preview' icon app pic. The weird thing in PS is that if you save as " jpeg" PS creates an actual icon pic thumbnail, but if you save for web "jpg" it creates a PS icon and no preview of the actual pic, even when in the column view in OSX. Kinda odd?
Not on my computer.
All downloaded jpg's, gif's, tiff's, ... come immediately with a thumnail on my desktop . Did you check your view options in the Finder menubar (or cmd-j) ?