For instance, choose the Show Icon Preview option to make the Finder display a thumbnail of files’ contents (for file types it’s familiar with). (It will also apply to new Finder windows you open using File > New Finder Window or Command-N.) This can come in handy when a certain option proves useful for only certain types of files. The options you set in the View Options inspector apply only to the selected folder, unless you select the Use As Defaults option this applies the change to all folders that use the current view and that haven’t already been customized in some way. With different backgrounds, you can tell multiple windows apart at a glance. When the color picker appears, choose your color and click OK. Just press Command-J, click on Color (in the Background section near the bottom of the View Options window), and then click on the color well.

From the View Options inspector ( View > Show View Options or Command-J), you can, for example, adjust grid spacing (how close together icons appear) and choose a color or picture as a folder background.Īnother option lets you set, say, a green background for folders containing important files, and a blue background for folders containing documents you need to edit. With OS X 10.4, Preview lost playback functionality and animated GIFs would instead display as individual frames in a numbered sequence.You can not only place icons wherever you please, but also change how this view looks.

The version of Preview included with OS X 10.3 could loop animated GIFs via an optional 'play' button that could be added to the toolbar. TIF, TIFF – Tagged Image File Format files.PS – Adobe PostScript files (after an automatic conversion to PDF).JPEG – Joint Photographic Experts Group files.GIF – Graphics Interchange Format files.

EPS – Encapsulated PostScript files (after an automatic conversion to PDF).

Preview can open the following file types:

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