Re: QuickLook with default app for file

FROM : Julien Jalon
DATE : Fri May 16 22:39:23 2008

This should not happen.
What happens if you try in a terminal:

qlmanage -t /path/to/one/of/your/file.pdf

What UTI does it show? What plug-in does it use?

Maybe your application redefines the PDF type and change its UTI to
something else (i.e. not "com.adobe.pdf")

As PDF is a built-in OS type, you should not redeclare it in your
application and only use "com.adobe.pdf" to reference PDF files in your
application (so no reference to file extensions or other kind of type tags).

At this point, PDF files can't participate any more to the system wide
plug-ins relying on proper typing.

--
Julien

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Christiaan Hofman <<email_removed>>
wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> I have a question about problems with QuickLook support for files that have
> a default app to open set. My app can open PDFs. When it is set as the
> default app to open a PDF file, QuickLook for this file shows the icon
> intead of the thumbnail. To be clear, my app does *not* provide a QuickLook
> plugin for PDFs. Why would the system plugin not work in this case?
>
> Thanks,
> Christiaan
>
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