macfidelity

Eine der für mich wohl besten neuen Funktionen seit 10.5 ist Quick Look.

Dies liegt wohl in der einfachen Handhabe (schneller Zugriff via Space) sowie dem relativ großen Extension-Support sofern man diesen durch zusätzliche Plugins erweitert.

Ich verwende Quick Look trotz alledem primär für den schnellen Blick auf Grafiken, vielleicht auch weil Mac OS X ab Werk keinen für mich brauchbaren anderen Grafik-Viewer hat. Xee kann ich in dem Zuge empfehlen (andere Vorschläge als Image-Viewer ?) für alle die Preview auch nicht abkönnen, aber zurück zu Quick Look.

Bis heute war mein Workflow:
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From my point of view its just a bug others would call it inconsistent

Open Preview in 10.5 and compare the print dialog if you:

• Open the dialog with   the shortcut APPLE+P

or

• Via the menu file -> print

I noticed Apple’s automator at the beginning of my switch to OS-X but i never used in the first month. Some weeks ago i reached the point that i was forced to auto-resize several images and it was clear that it should be done automaticly…for sure

So i checked out Automator again. The following example is based on resizing images but you can create workflows for almost all applications which can work with Apple Script.

Example:

• Open automator
• Select “Finder” in the Library column
• Select “Get selected Finder Items” from Actions column and drag it to the Workflow column
• Select “Preview” in the Library column
• Select “Scale images” from Actions column and drag it to the Workflow column

So now you should have a 2-Step workflow. As element 1 the Finder action followed by the Scale Action using Preview.

Now lets test:

Select some images in Finder and Press “Run” in Automator.

As result the selected images should be replaced by re-scaled images. Really simple, but i guess a good example what automator can do for you.

Apple offers several Workflows there.

Have fun with it, best regards
fidel