actual picture/document/pdf icon preview?
Hi all,
I am a new osX / Apple swicher... love it!
I do have a question / comment:
Is it possible (why havent they implemented that yet if it isnt) to display the actual document / picture / pdf / content as opposed to the file association icon in os X? Like showing an icon sized word doc or jpeg and when you mouse over it grows in size a'la the dock?
Seems like that would be a fantastic feature...
if anyone knows about this, please feel free to comment.
Thanks!
I am a new osX / Apple swicher... love it!
I do have a question / comment:
Is it possible (why havent they implemented that yet if it isnt) to display the actual document / picture / pdf / content as opposed to the file association icon in os X? Like showing an icon sized word doc or jpeg and when you mouse over it grows in size a'la the dock?
Seems like that would be a fantastic feature...
if anyone knows about this, please feel free to comment.
Thanks!
Comments
In Column View, you can bring up the same View Options panel and check 'Show Preview Column'.
thank you very much, works!
too bad they this isnt available system wide with all files and folders... (one thing i did like in windows xp is that the folders show you a collection of jpegs on the folder view itself...)
Thanks again,
Danny
I use Icon View about, oh, never, so... :}
I think it should be easy to implement... perhaps in Tiger...
BTW, multi-page PDFs won't show an icon preview in the Finder, but single-page PDFs will.
Don't forget to make your icons large for graphics folders that you view in icon mode. They make it pretty clear what the graphics looks like
Originally posted by Code Master
Multipage PDFs show a preview in column view though. I only use column view so I can't say about any other view.
Don't forget to make your icons large for graphics folders that you view in icon mode. They make it pretty clear what the graphics looks like
Yes, but it still doesnt show a preview of the jpeg's contained within the folder, like winXp does... which is pretty neat.