6V8 - Production of my Mind

Home page > For your Computer > Gimp XCF Quick Look Plugin

Gimp XCF Quick Look Plugin

 

Gimp on OS X has been around for a while and is a good concurrent to the expensive and closed source image processing software like photoshop of pixelmator.

However, getting thumbnails and previews of the content of XCF files generated by Gimp was impossible until now. The introduction of the Quick Look "technology" in Leopard now allows to have meaningful views of your images from the Finder... no more grinning Wilber [1].

1.0 BETA | 18 March 2008, by Mortimer

This is a beta release of version 1.0 of the XCF Quick Look plugin. It is stable and should work with no problems, but the wilber-loves-apple team behind the development of this plugin wants to make sure it is ready for distribution with the Gimp.app package.

For now, it is distributed from this website, but is still need you to install the wilber-loves-apple Gimp.app package [2]. To get it to work, the installation is simple:

  1. download Gimp.app from http://www.wilber-loves-apple.org/
  2. install it where you want
  3. download the following disk image (for Intel Leopard only)
    Disk Image - 43.3 kb
    XCF Quick Look plugin (Leopard)
    3031 download(s) since 18 March 2008
  1. right click on Gimp.app and choose "Show Package Contents"
  2. Copy xcf_quicklook.qlgenerator to the package directory Contents/Library/QuickLook/ (create as needed).
  3. launch Gimp.app at least once and enjoy.
Date of online publication: 18 March 2008
last-update: 18 March 2008
Forum messages 0
visits:
5383

Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 2.5 License

notes

[1] the Gimp mascot.

[2] don’t worry, it’s the best and up to date version around.

 
 

The most read articles

 
©
Pierre Andrews
York, uk
| Site Map | Site created with SPIP 1.9.2c [10268] | RSS | template by IZO, Mortimer. | clicky stats
In very up Backing Tina
In very up Backing Tina
In very up Backing Tina
In very up Backing Tina
In very up Backing Tina