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05-09-2007, 10:35 AM | #1 |
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"Open With" menu in Tiger
Hello chaps, how can I modify the Open With menu so it doesn't have so many applications to choose from? With JPEGs I leave the defalt as Preview, but when I want to choose Photoshop I have to trawl through such a long list of apps that scrolls off the bottom of the screen!
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05-09-2007, 02:45 PM | #2 |
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I don't think you can. I believe that the OS asks each application what formats they understand, then builds the list based on their responses. I don't think its settable.
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You could, of course, change the default for all jpegs to Photoshop but that's maybe not what you want to do. |
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05-17-2007, 07:13 AM | #4 |
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Don't forget that you can drop documents onto an application's icon in the dock to open it.
If you need a JPEG occasionally opened by a different app, that's probably the easiest, if the Open With... list is too long. Or you could build an Automator contextual menu item to open a file with Photoshop! |
05-19-2007, 09:28 AM | #5 |
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Thanks, Ben – simplest is best!
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05-19-2007, 11:40 AM | #6 |
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Something I keep trying to do in Windows, to my constant frustration...
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05-19-2007, 01:13 PM | #7 |
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And? You can drop documents onto shortcuts in Windows. The execution maybe slightly different, but the concept is exactly the same.
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05-19-2007, 01:25 PM | #8 |
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It works the same way in Linux as well.
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05-19-2007, 09:30 PM | #9 |
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Hmm, I get into strife when I try to drop them onto the icons in the task bar (which is where the dock is on the Mac). Win2K tells me I can't do that.
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So what, if anything, corresponds to the dock? The closest analogue is the quick launch bar which simply contains shortcuts to programs. If my quick launch bar contains a shortcut to a program that can handle a particular type of document, then I can drag a file onto that shortcut and the corresponding application will open with the file I dragged to it. For instance, I have a shortcut to MS Word in my quick launch bar, and I can drag a .txt file to it - the result is that Word will open with the text file loaded. This is exactly the same mechanism as dragging a document onto an application "in" the dock on a Mac. Put differently: the dock is not the analogue of the task bar - it's the analogue of the quick launch bar (normally found on the task bar). But Windows has other mechanisms for opening dragged documents (all probably with analogues in Mac, but I'm less sure of these, or their mechanism):
Finally: where the taskbar in Windows is located is irrelevant. It may be sitting on the bottom, but that's not fixed. You can drag it to any edge of your desktop. Mine is always sitting on the left, and on auto-hide so normally it's out of the way, but wide, so I can read a good deal of the text of each of the open-application buttons, which makes it much easier to find the one you want, even with many open windows. I've been doing this since I started to use NT4. (I'm not sure if the dock on a Mac can be moved, but I suspect it can.) __________________ Marjolein Katsma Look through my eyes on Cultural Surfaces (soon!), My ArtFlakes shop and Flickr. Occasionally I am also connecting online dots... and sometimes you can follow me on Marjolein's Travel Blog |
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