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From: WelshGas on 23 Jun 2010 00:37 On 23/06/2010 01:48, in article drache-4DBE2A.19481822062010(a)reserved-multicast-range-not-delegated.example. com, "erilar" <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote: > In article <220620101706485753%jimsgibson(a)gmail.com>, > Jim Gibson <jimsgibson(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> In article >> <drache-4D9252.15302222062010(a)reserved-multicast-range-not-delegated.exa >> mple.com>, erilar <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote: >> >>> Is there a way I can STOP Preview from butting in and opening files made >>> with other programs that I want to open in the program I made them in? >>> Before SabreTooth(10.6+) messed up a whole list of things with its >>> installation, when I clicked on a graphics file made or modified by >>> ColorIt, that's what it opened in. GC files were opened by GC. Now any >>> of those I click on are opened by the imbecilic Preview, which I can't >>> use for anything but a slide show. >> >> 1. Open a finder window. >> 2. Select one of the documents that you wish to open in ColorIt. >> 3. Click on the "More info..." button or type Command-I. >> 4. Find the "Open with:" section and click on the triangle to open it, >> if necessary. >> 5. From the pop-up menu, select the ColorIt application (if it is >> there). >> 6. If it is not there, select "Other" and navigate to the ColorIt >> application in the dialog box that opens. >> 7. Select the "Always Open With" checkbox in the dialog box or click on >> the "Change All..." button in the "More info" box (or both). > > Thank you for the step by step. I'm going to save this in a readily > accessible location for a patient time. Tonight is not one. R click on file you wish to open. Then select " Open with " an then programme you wish to use to open it with from the list shown. Normally the programme used to create the file is at the top of the list but if it is not there then click on " Other " and find the programme you want. Next time you wish to open the file the programme needed should be at the top of the list. -- Welsh Gas Remove usual to reply direct. paulatwoodsforddotcodotuk
From: Erilar on 23 Jun 2010 19:23 Tim Streater <timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote: > In article > <drache-CAD770.19455522062010(a)reserved-multicast-range-not-delegated.exa > mple.com>, > erilar <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote: > > > What do you mean by "no editing capability"? It's not so featured as > say > GC or Elements, but I can crop, adjust colours, adjust image size, > bits, > ... > > That does me for most of what I need. I like to choose the size I'm working with, use filters, adjust image size, not choose from a limited list I have no control over, rotate freely, and do many other things, some of which I can do with GC, all of which and more I can do with another inexpensive program, ColorIt, and both of these useful programs are preempted by this piece of kindergarten trash. Clear? Since Preview can do so little, I fail to see why it's set up to preempt its betters! -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist
From: Calum on 24 Jun 2010 16:00 On 24/06/10 00:23, Erilar wrote: > I like to choose the size I'm working with, use filters, adjust image > size, not choose from a limited list I have no control over, rotate > freely, and do many other things, some of which I can do with GC, all of > which and more I can do with another inexpensive program, ColorIt, and > both of these useful programs are preempted by this piece of > kindergarten trash. Clear? Since > Preview can do so little, I fail to see why it's set up to preempt its > betters! Because none of the apps you mention come pre-installed with OS X, so Preview is the only option on a clean install. If other apps you subsequently install don't make themselves the default handlers for the file types you want them to, that their fault, not Preview's. --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news(a)netfront.net ---
From: Erilar on 24 Jun 2010 21:07
Calum <com.gmail(a)nospam.scottishwildcat> wrote: > On 24/06/10 00:23, Erilar wrote: > >> I like to choose the size I'm working with, use filters, adjust image >> size, not choose from a limited list I have no control over, rotate >> freely, and do many other things, some of which I can do with GC, all > > of >> which and more I can do with another inexpensive program, ColorIt, > > and >> both of these useful programs are preempted by this piece of >> kindergarten trash. Clear? Since >> Preview can do so little, I fail to see why it's set up to preempt > > its >> betters! > > Because none of the apps you mention come pre-installed with OS X, so > Preview is the only option on a clean install. If other apps you > subsequently install don't make themselves the default handlers for > the file types you want them to, that their fault, not Preview's. > the subsequent installation is the downgraded Preview dragged in by that nasty 10.6.4 OS I had to have to connect to my iPad. It didn't try to usurp its betters before. -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist |