How do you view an animated GIF in Preview in Tiger?

zozo
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
there is no "Play" button anymore to view animated GIFS



WTF??

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 9
    kickahakickaha Posts: 8,760member
    I don't believe I've *ever* seen a Play button in Preview. Every animated GIF I've ever loaded in has shown up in the pages drawer as individual frames.
  • Reply 2 of 9
    zozo Posts: 3,117member
    In Panther, when you customize the Preview toolbar , there is a button that says "Play"



    You could play animated GIFS. It was kinda lame, but at least you had something builtin to the OS that let you view the damn things.
  • Reply 3 of 9
    kickahakickaha Posts: 8,760member
    Well heck, I learn something new everyday. Yup, there it is. Thanks.
  • Reply 4 of 9
    zozo Posts: 3,117member
    oh sure... just take the info you want and leave us poor mortals groveling for the info they came here to ask and paid for!!! Gimme back my lettuce!!!







    yeah... uh...
  • Reply 5 of 9
    ijerryijerry Posts: 615member
    Do you just not like opening them up with safari, or your choice of web browser?? I never knew that Preview could do this either, but I guess now that I am a Tiger user, I won't know the difference...
  • Reply 6 of 9
    homebrewsolutionshomebrewsolutions Posts: 15member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by ijerry

    Do you just not like opening them up with safari, or your choice of web browser?? I never knew that Preview could do this either, but I guess now that I am a Tiger user, I won't know the difference...



    Agreed. Use a web broswer.
  • Reply 7 of 9
    lundylundy Posts: 4,466member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by ZO

    there is no "Play" button anymore to view animated GIFS



    WTF??



    Preview plays the animation by default in Tiger.



    See Preview Help -> See All Preview Topics ->Viewing Animated GIFs.
  • Reply 8 of 9
    zozo Posts: 3,117member
    the gifs I tried didn't work. I just get the Drawer with each frame in it. I can only see the gif if I quickly press "next page". Sucks



    And maybe a WEB browser works, but, for hell's sake, a WEB browser isn't supposed to be used to do picture browsing
  • Reply 9 of 9
    rockwell_xrockwell_x Posts: 4member
    I usually drag animated gifs onto QuickTime player. I assume that still works in Tiger.
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