Monday, November 26, 2007
Leopard Quicklook for SWFs?
Monday, November 26, 2007 
Quicklook in OS X Leopard is very powerful and a great time-saving feature, but it doesn't work for SWFs out of the box. There are developer notes and programming guides for hooking it into things other than what Apple has provided.
On the face of it, I'm not sure how to approach a SWF... one could pull out a "single page" vector document preview for a SWF? But at what point does a SWF become recognizable... is frame one good enough, especially when you're talking about programmatic UIs, etc.
I'll be digging through the docs to see if something might be possible in order to generate Quicklook previews for our beloved SWFs, but this may be above my head. Someone at Adobe might know the answer immediately and may already be addressing this internally in their respective departments, if so please leave a comment or note about the general viability of getting some kind of SWF representation with .swf files.
Update: found this, has some FLV, etc.
On the face of it, I'm not sure how to approach a SWF... one could pull out a "single page" vector document preview for a SWF? But at what point does a SWF become recognizable... is frame one good enough, especially when you're talking about programmatic UIs, etc.
I'll be digging through the docs to see if something might be possible in order to generate Quicklook previews for our beloved SWFs, but this may be above my head. Someone at Adobe might know the answer immediately and may already be addressing this internally in their respective departments, if so please leave a comment or note about the general viability of getting some kind of SWF representation with .swf files.
Update: found this, has some FLV, etc.
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Keith Peters said...“I had the same questions last week.
http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1088
From what I can tell, software vendors will be encouraged to provide quick look plugins as development goes forward. Adobe did not commit to doing this for CS3. I guess the timing was a bit off. Not sure if they will release one before CS4. Or if someone will homebrew one before then.”
