Thursday, February 14, 2008 6:16 PM steve szoczei

Mac OSX.5 Quick Look Plugin for Painter RIF's now available

For all the Mac folks out there, we have created a Quick Look plugin for viewing Painter files in the finder.

Simply download the plugin from here [450kB file]. (Link updated Feb 14.08)

Install it and you should be ready to go.

To use it - navigate to a Painter '.rif' file and press the spacebar and you should see a nice preview of your Painter file. This will also allow you to see your Painter files with a nicer preview in Cover Flow mode in Finder Windows.

For more info on Quick Look visit the Quick Look page at Apple.com.

Enjoy!

steve Filed under: , ,

Comments

# re: Mac OSX.5 Quick Look Plugin for RIF now available

Thursday, February 14, 2008 6:39 PM by sculptor

I'm getting a file not found error when I click the download link above - painterfactory.com/.../Quicklook%20ESD.dmg

# re: Mac OSX.5 Quick Look Plugin for Painter RIF's now available - updated

Thursday, February 14, 2008 8:29 PM by steve szoczei

I've updated the link to the download... all appears to be working now.

cheers

steve

# re: Mac OSX.5 Quick Look Plugin for Painter RIF's now available

Saturday, February 16, 2008 3:04 PM by DanL

Does any one know if there is the same for a ... dare I say here... a PC

With XP or Vista on it?

# re: Mac OSX.5 Quick Look Plugin for Painter RIF's now available

Saturday, February 16, 2008 6:57 PM by steve szoczei

Unfortunately there is not a similar feature available for Windows XP / Vista...

# re: Mac OSX.5 Quick Look Plugin for Painter RIF's now available

Sunday, February 17, 2008 7:17 AM by janetkinney

Thank you.  That will be most helpful.

# re: Mac OSX.5 Quick Look Plugin for Painter RIF's now available

Sunday, February 17, 2008 9:20 AM by cartoonM!ke

Thanks! And this was announced the day after I took the plunge and upgraded to OS X 10.5!

Installed it and it works very well. Except in cover flow, the images are exteremely pixelated and blurred.

# re: Mac OSX.5 Quick Look Plugin for Painter RIF's now available

Monday, February 25, 2008 2:47 PM by philippec

"Except in cover flow, the images are exteremely pixelated and blurred".

That's because QuickLook has two modes. A super-fast mode (e.g. in CoverFlow) and a detailed mode (e.g. when you press the space bar to view the file).

In the first mode, we have to give QuickLook an image as fast as possible. That image is the embedded Painter thumbnail, which is 120x120. In a large window, this will look pixelated.

In the second mode, we have more time and can render each layer properly (except text and shapes, for technical reasons, sorry!).

Apple may have changed the behavior of QuickLook between 10.5.0 and 10.5.2. I seem to recall that images in CoverFlow were first pixelated (the small thumbnail was blown up), and then correct (the large image was scaled down). They may have taken out the second step as it was taking too long on most pictures...

# re: Mac OSX.5 Quick Look Plugin for Painter RIF's now available

Friday, March 21, 2008 7:37 AM by TomT

I understand this is a feature not available now for a PC, but what about in the future.. Anything in the works for the PC user

# QuickLookは便利！

Saturday, July 26, 2008 1:18 AM by 武蔵野書林

クイックルックの機能は大変便利で重宝しているのですが、一部ファイルがデフォルトの状態では読めなくて悲しい思いをしておりました。特にRIFFファイルはPainterユーザの私にとっては困

# Searching Corel Painter Rif files in Spotlight

Saturday, July 25, 2009 5:41 PM by Searching Corel Painter Rif files in Spotlight

Pingback from  Searching Corel Painter Rif files in Spotlight

# re: Mac OSX.5 Quick Look Plugin for Painter RIF's now available

Friday, October 23, 2009 6:26 AM by guthriej

Thanks it's a bit slow in rendering the preview but much better than the native preview!

# re: Mac OSX.5 Quick Look Plugin for Painter RIF's now available

Friday, July 30, 2010 1:34 PM by paulhildebrandt

Very cool plug-in.  I couldn't find the licensing on it though.  It would be very nice if it were MIT or something like that.