"Badging" Quick Look thumbnails

[Julien Jalon]

The icon decoration (form, badging, etc.) is determined by your UTI and its
conformance to functional UTIs
(see:<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/understanding_utis/understand_utis_conc/chapter_2_section_2.html
>).

There are no official rules for now but what is important:
1) focus your thumbnail only on your document's content, not on decoration.
2) chose your UTI's conformance on what your file type actually is, not on
what you expect Quick Look to produce. If you feel that you lack some
decoration, please file a bug describing your file type (and its full
declaration in your Info.plist) and what you are trying to achieve.

-- 
Julien

On Nov 12, 2007 3:18 AM, David Dunham <dunham at mac.com> wrote:

> Finder is superimposing "RTF", "SHELL", "TXT" on icon previews of
> various text files (presumably thumbnails, as a Quick Look shows the
> document as text), and "DOC" on Word documents.
>
> I'm thinking of doing the same, as the text is so small it's hard to
> make out. Are there any guidelines as to the font size and color? Even
> better, sample code?
>
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