While macOS features a built-in previewer app, users of the more popular Windows OS often have to rely on third-party applications to preview their files in Explorer.
I stumbled on QuickLook last week in the Microsoft Store and it’s exactly what the doctor ordered in that regard.
Installing QuickLook, the app has no interface to speak of. It works primarily as an extension to File Explorer. If you select a file and press spacebar, you can see a quick preview of what the file is, with the option of opening it in an actionable app. For example, previewing a PDF file will give you the option of opening Microsoft Edge as well.
The app features:
Annotate an image in Preview on Mac. You can use the editing tools in the Markup toolbar to mark up an image file, providing feedback or pointing out something you want to remember. If the image is on a page in a PDF file and you want to comment on only the image, you can extract the image as a separate image file.
- A fast spacebar-to-preview solution
- Tons of supported file types
- HiDPI support
- Preview from 3rd-party file managers
- Strict GPL license to keep it free forever
There are three variants of the app users can download, and while they’re all mostly the same, there are some differences.
The Microsoft Store version is the one we’re recommending since it should cover the majority of general use cases. It gets updates 1-3 working days after the main versions and doesn’t preview files in the Open/Save Dialogs.
The Microsoft Store version is the one we’re recommending since it should cover the majority of general use cases. It gets updates 1-3 working days after the main versions and doesn’t preview files in the Open/Save Dialogs.
The QuickLook developer recommends the .msi installer version which has “full features of QuickLook, including previewing selected files in the Open- and Save-File Dialogs.” There’s a .zip version as well, as well as a nightly build, but the MSI and the Microsoft Store apps are the most important ones for regular users.
You can download it from the Microsoft Store below, or if you aren’t a Microsoft Store user from Github.
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Preview is the vendor-supplied image viewer and PDF viewer of the macOS operating system. In addition to viewing and printing digital images and Portable Document Format (PDF) files, it can also edit these media types. It employs the Aqua graphical user interface, the Quartz graphics layer, and the ImageIO and Core Image frameworks.
History[edit]
Like macOS, Preview originated in the NeXTSTEP operating system by NeXT,[1][2] where it was part of every release since 1989.
Supported file types[edit]
Preview can open the following file types:
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The version of Preview included with OS X 10.3 (Panther) could play animated GIF images, for which an optional button could be added to the toolbar. As of OS X 10.4 (Tiger), Preview lost playback functionality and animated GIF files are display as individual frames in a numbered sequence.[3][4]
Features[edit]
Editing PDF documents[edit]
Preview can encrypt PDF documents, and restrict their use; for example, it is possible to save an encrypted PDF so that a password is required to copy data from the document, or to print it. However, encrypted PDFs cannot be edited further, so the original author should always keep an unencrypted version.
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Some features which are otherwise only available in professional PDF editing software are provided by Preview: It is possible to extract single pages out of multi-page documents (e.g. PDF files), sort pages, and drag & drop single or multiple pages between several opened multi-page documents, or into other applications, such as attaching to an opened email message.
Editing images[edit]
Preview offers basic image correction tools using Core Image processing technology implemented in macOS, and other features like shape extraction, color extraction, cropping, and rotation tools. When annotating images, Preview uses vector shapes and text until the image is rasterized to JPEG, PNG or another bitmap format. PDF and image documents can also be supplied with keywords, and are then automatically indexed using macOS's system-wide Spotlight search engine.
Import and export[edit]
Preview can directly access image scanners supported by macOS and import images from the scanner. Preview can convert between image formats; it can export to BMP, JP2, JPEG, PDF, PICT, PNG, SGI, TGA, and TIFF. Using macOS's print engine (based on CUPS) it is also possible to 'print into' a Postscript file, a PDF-X file or directly save the file in iPhoto, for example scanned photos.
Beginning with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Preview restricts the Format option popup menu in the Save As dialog to commonly used types. It is possible to access the full format list by holding down the Option key when clicking the Format popup menu.[5] (GIF, ICNS, JPEG, JPEG-2000, Microsoft BMP, Microsoft Icon, OpenEXR, PDF, Photoshop, PNG, SGI, TGA, TIFF)
New features in Version 7[edit]
Preview 7.0 screenshot
A new 'edit button' where the picture can be edited is introduced in Version 7. The 'edit button' allows options to insert shapes, lines, do cropping, and among other things.
Issues[edit]
As of OS X 10.9.2, Preview does not support ISO-standardized PDF (ISO 32000), and when saving, destroys aspects of PDF files without warning to the user.[6]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^NeXTSTEP promotional brochure from 1995.
- ^'The many superpowers of Apple's Preview app: Part 1'. Macworld. Retrieved 2017-11-18.
- ^Use Preview to play animated GIFs
- ^Preview for Mac: View animated GIF files in Preview
- ^'Convert Images in Mac OS X: JPG to GIF, PSD to JPG, GIF to JPG, BMP to JPG, PNG to PDF, and more'. OS X Daily. 2010-01-24. Retrieved 2017-01-08.
- ^Duff Johnson. 'Apple's Preview: Still not safe for work'. Retrieved 2014-04-07.
External links[edit]
- AppleInsider review from 2003
- MacProNews article: PDF and Panther: The Hidden Role of PDF in Mac OS X 10.3 from July 2004
- Sams Publishing sample chapter on Preview from Mac OS X Panther Applications and Utilities. Includes some instructions for use, with screenshots.
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