Re: using QuickLook from an application?
Re: using QuickLook from an application?
- Subject: Re: using QuickLook from an application?
- From: James Walker <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:13:12 -0700
Bill Janssen wrote:
I'd like to be able to invoke the QuickLook server from my application
to obtain PDF or RTF preview versions of MS-Office Documents before
opening them. The capability exists; you can see it in Finder, for
instance. But I can't see how to invoke it from a client. The only
useful call I can make is QLThumbnailImageCreate(), which unfortunately
is for single-page data. Symmetry tells me there should be something
like QLPreviewDocumentCreate(), but I don't see it anywhere.
What am I missing? Surely Apple wouldn't keep such a useful facility
out of the hands of developers?
I'm not sure if you're asking for a way to pop up a QuickLook window, or
a way to get your hands on the data returned by the generator. In the
former case, there's the qlmanage command line tool, though it's
intended only for debugging.
You might want to join the quicklook-dev mailing list.
--
James W. Walker, Innoventive Software LLC
<http://www.frameforge3d.com/>
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