[OS X TeX] Leopard Quick Look & TeX

[Thomas Rike]

Hope this goes to the correct place in the thread. I am still not sure  
how to reply to a thread so that the email shows up in the correct  
place. I didn't get any response to this posting, so I kept going over  
all of the items in the thread. It looked like I had done everything  
correct, but none of the files would generate thumbnails. Content type  
UTI: org.tug.tex. Generator used: None was always the outcome. I  
finally came across the remark that UTI was discussed in Developer  
documentation. When looking at my hard drive I found that the  
Developer folder was not there. Apparently when Leopard is installed  
the X-Code tools are thrown out, but the new ones are not installed.  
So I went to my install disk and installed  the Leopard X-code Tools  
and as soon as the installation was over Quicklook began working  
perfectly on .tex and .sty files. I don't know what that has to do  
with X-code Tools, but qlmanage -t foo.tex now  shows:

Content type UTI: org.tug.tex. Generator used: <QLGenerator/System/ 
Library/Frameworks/QuickLook.framework/Resources/Generators/ 
Text.qlgenerator>

Thanks for the pointers (Especially Adam and Herb), Tom Rike

On Dec 1, 2007, at 9:32 PM, Thomas Rike wrote:

> Adam,
>
> Sorry for the delay. I have been away all day and am just getting  
> back to my computer. Thanks for your patience. Here are the results  
> of the terminal commands.
>
> mdls /Users/trike/Desktop/quicktest.tex
> kMDItemContentCreationDate     = 2007-11-30 21:13:38 -0800
> kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2007-11-30 21:17:29 -0800
> kMDItemContentType             = "org.tug.tex"
> kMDItemContentTypeTree         = (
>    "org.tug.tex",
>    "public.text",
>    "public.data",
>    "public.item",
>    "public.content"
> )
> kMDItemDisplayName             = "quicktest.tex"
> kMDItemFSContentChangeDate     = 2007-11-30 21:17:29 -0800
> kMDItemFSCreationDate          = 2007-11-30 21:13:38 -0800
> kMDItemFSCreatorCode           = "TeXs"
> kMDItemFSFinderFlags           = 0
> kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon         = 0
> kMDItemFSInvisible             = 0
> kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden     = 0
> kMDItemFSIsStationery          = 0
> kMDItemFSLabel                 = 0
> kMDItemFSName                  = "quicktest.tex"
> kMDItemFSNodeCount             = 0
> kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID          = 501
> kMDItemFSOwnerUserID           = 501
> kMDItemFSSize                  = 692
> kMDItemFSTypeCode              = "TEXT"
> kMDItemKind                    = "TeX Document"
> kMDItemLastUsedDate            = 2007-11-30 21:32:24 -0800
> kMDItemUsedDates               = (
>    2007-11-30 00:00:00 -0800
> )
>
> Macintosh-3:~ trike$ qlmanage -r
> 2007-12-01 21:03:15.361 qlmanage[334:10b] Resetting all generators
>
> Macintosh-3:~ trike$ qlmanage -t /Users/trike/Desktop/quicktest.tex
> 2007-12-01 21:05:43.222 qlmanage[340:10b] Testing quicklookd  
> thumbnails with files:
> (
>    "/Users/trike/Desktop/quicktest.tex"
> )
> 2007-12-01 21:05:43.230 qlmanage[340:10b] [QL] Succesfully activated  
> built-in quicklookd sandbox profile
> 2007-12-01 21:05:43.263 qlmanage[340:4503] [QL] Thumbnailing /Users/ 
> trike/Desktop/quicktest.tex (128 x 128). Content type UTI:  
> org.tug.tex. Generator used: <QLGenerator Void>
> 2007-12-01 21:05:43.266 qlmanage[340:5203] [QL] Registering  
> <QLGenerator Built-in> for public.image
> ----cut---- A LOT OF REGISTERING TO VARIOUS APPLICATIONS FROM SAFARI  
> TO ICAL TO MAIL TO IWORK ...
> 2007-12-01 21:05:43.331 qlmanage[340:5203] [QL] Registering  
> <QLGenerator /Applications/LaTeX/LaTeXApps/BibDesk.app/Contents/ 
> Library/QuickLook/BibDesk.qlgenerator> for  
> net.sourceforge.bibdesk.bdskcache
> 2007-12-01 21:05:43.333 qlmanage[340:5203] [QL] Registering  
> <QLGenerator /Applications/LaTeX/LaTeXApps/BibDesk.app/Contents/ 
> Library/QuickLook/BibDesk.qlgenerator> for net.sourceforge.bibdesk.bib
> 2007-12-01 21:05:43.334 qlmanage[340:4e03] [QL] Thumbnailing /Users/ 
> trike/Desktop/quicktest.tex. Content type UTI: org.tug.tex.  
> Generator used: None
> 2007-12-01 21:05:43.334 qlmanage[340:4503] [QL] Thumbnailing for / 
> Users/trike/Desktop/quicktest.tex done (No image created).
> 2007-12-01 21:05:43.335 qlmanage[340:4503] No thumbnail created for file://localhost/Users/trike/Desktop/quicktest.tex
>
> The bottom line is that no image is created. Any advice is welcome.  
> Thanks, Tom
>
> On Nov 30, 2007, at 10:34 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
>>
>> On Nov 30, 2007, at 10:03 PM, Thomas Rike wrote:
>>
>>> I agree it is very explicit, but it isn't working for me.
>>> I have added, using BBEdit.app,
>>> <string>public.plain-text</string>
>>> to the UTTypeConformsTo</key> <array>
>>> After saving: moving TeXShop.app, logging off, shutting down, and  
>>> using touch on the command line were all unable to cause Quick  
>>> Look to view any of my .tex files as text. Have I missed the  
>>> point? Thanks for any advise.
>>
>> That sounds right.  What is the output of the following in Terminal:
>>
>> 1) `mdls /path/to/file.tex`
>> 2) `qlmanage -r /path/to/file.tex`
>>
>> where /path/to/file.tex comes from dropping a .tex file on Terminal?
>>
>> -- 
>> adam