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Screenshots Question
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Currently, when I take screenshots by using the apple+shift+4 key combination, the image is saved to my desktop as a pdf file WITHOUT a preview thumbnail icon of the image itself. How can I change this so that the image is saved WITH the preview? I'm sure I've overlooked a simple solution - any advice is appreciated - thanks!
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Mac OS X has never presented icon previews of PDF files. OS X is not like OS 9 and earlier. In OS 9, the preview of an image file was really a preview image that was stored and displayed for the file. In OS X, icon previews are generated from the file, not stored with it. So it would be impractical to generate a PDF preview for your icons.
I'm pretty sure this is how it works.
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There's a great little piece of freeware called Pic2Icon that you can drop an image (any type -- pdf, jpg, whatever) and it will rapidly turn it it to a "preview thumbnail". Works great on single images or entire folders.
Keep it in your dock (running or not) and drag your new pdf to it. I just tried it with a full screen (cmd+shift+3) pdf and it:
Launched
Converted to thumbnail
Shut itself back down (it will do this ON PURPOSE if it wasn't already running when you dropped the pic on it)
... all in about 2 seconds ... on a 450mhz G3 with a crappy video card.
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Originally posted by chabig:
Mac OS X has never presented icon previews of PDF files. OS X is not like OS 9 and earlier. In OS 9, the preview of an image file was really a preview image that was stored and displayed for the file. In OS X, icon previews are generated from the file, not stored with it. So it would be impractical to generate a PDF preview for your icons.
I'm pretty sure this is how it works.
Chris
OSX can do both ways.
If you go into View Options in the finder, you can force it to display preview icons for files that don't have the custom icon saved with them.
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What the nerd community most often fail to realize is that all features aren't equal. A well implemented and well integrated feature in a convenient interface is worth way more than the same feature implemented crappy, or accessed through a annoying interface.
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If you go into View Options in the finder, you can force it to display preview icons for files that don't have the custom icon saved with them.
Yes, but that doesn't display previews for PDF files.
Chris
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Too bad pict2icon isn't scriptable. One could attach a folder action script that says if added file is pdf then run through pict2icon, and you'd be there..... I wonder if there's another way to accomplish the same thing.....
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OS X: Where software installation doesn't require wizards with shields.
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