[OS X TeX] Leopard Quick Look & TeX

[Thomas Rike]

Hello again.

This is very frustrating, because I had about 5 hours where it worked  
perfectly. Now I am back to square one. Now none of the .tex, .sty  
or .cls files generate a quick look. All I get is the icon. I use  
qlmanage -t foo.tex on the command line and

Content type UTI: org.tug.tex. Generator used: None

is back with no thumbnail created.  <QLGenerator/System/Library/ 
Frameworks/QuickLook.framework/Resources/Generators/Text.qlgenerator>  
no longer appears.

Is there somewhere to look to find what is stopping quicklook from  
registering a generator for org.tug.tex?

Macintosh-3:~ trike$ mdls /Users/trike/Desktop/Untitled.tex
kMDItemContentCreationDate     = 2007-12-05 22:11:11 -0800
kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2007-12-05 22:11:11 -0800
kMDItemContentType             = "org.tug.tex"
kMDItemContentTypeTree         = (
     "org.tug.tex",
     "public.text",
     "public.data",
     "public.item",
     "public.content"
)

This is the same output I saw in another email that suggested that  
this is not correct. Should the public.plain-text show up? I have to  
admit that I am unclear about how this works.

Hopefully someone reading this can suggest something I can try. Since  
I had the ability for a day, it is even harder to live without it now.
Thanks. Tom Rike




On Dec 2, 2007, at 2:01 PM, Thomas Rike wrote:

> 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:
>>
>> 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