Quick Look plugin for .eps files?

[flottenheimer]

Does anyone know of a plugin that enables Quick Look to preview/support .eps (and possibly .ai) files?
Free or cheap would be extrasuperawesome : )

Any help would be much appreciated.

(Must work on Apple Silicon + Monterey)

 

[MacGizmo]

You can try this old quicklook plugin.

 

[flottenheimer]

You can try this old quicklook plugin.

Thanks for the tip, MacGizmo. Tried it. Unfortunately it has no effect, once installed. (Tweeted the developer to kindly ask for an Apple Silicon/Monterey-compatible version...).

Boggles my mind that this is not a very common, much used Quick Look plugin.
.eps files are very, very common for people working within design, advertising etc.

Also super strange that Adobe has not developed Quick Look plugins themselves (to support eps, ai, indd, idml etc from Adobe CC). Quick Look'ing is just so super helpful.

 

[MacGizmo]

.ai files are, to my knowledge, supported natively by macOS Quick Look – so you should be able to see them already. I can see .eps files, but only recently saved ones. I have no explanation as to why that is, but I agree that both formats should be built-in.

 

[Rychiar]

Score! that plugin worked! thanks so much! such a frustrating problem as a designer

 

[SlowMotn]

Try: https://www.bigzlabs.com/peek.html

 

[flottenheimer]

Try: https://www.bigzlabs.com/peek.html

Thanks for the tip, but Peek will unfortunately not work for eps and ai.
From the link you provided:

Peek is unable to work with plain text documents (.txt,.text), rich text (.rtf, .rtfd), HTML/XML/web archives (.html, .xml***,.webarchive), TypeScript (.ts), Adobe suite (.pdf, .eps***), Microsoft Office (.csv,.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx), OpenDocument suite (.odt, .ods, .odp), nor any Apple iWork documents (.pages, .numbers, .key).

 

[flottenheimer]

The awesome developer John Daniel from Etresoft, was kind enough to send me a zip of EPSView. That worked perfect for me – with Quick Look being able to preview eps-files again (M1 Pro on Monterey).
So happy for this! Once again, thank you John.

For all those of you who are having the same issue, here is a link for EPSView:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1512170659861909510

(Do a restart after installing).

 

[SlowMotn]

Thanks for the tip, but Peek will unfortunately not work for eps and ai.
From the link you provided:

Peek is unable to work with plain text documents (.txt,.text), rich text (.rtf, .rtfd), HTML/XML/web archives (.html, .xml***,.webarchive), TypeScript (.ts), Adobe suite (.pdf, .eps***), Microsoft Office (.csv,.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx), OpenDocument suite (.odt, .ods, .odp), nor any Apple iWork documents (.pages, .numbers, .key).

Thats weird. I'm not sure why it states it doesn't work with EPS. I am using it with EPSes all day today and it works 99% of the time on EPS files. Feel free to contact the developer, I'm a random person, so why trust me? But I paid 7 bucks for it on the app store and think its worth it for EPS alone.

 

[MacGizmo]

I tried Peek. It didn't work with anything for me. I'll try EPSView (I could swear I tried it in the past and it didn't work either).

 

[flybynight]

The awesome developer John Daniel from Etresoft, was kind enough to send me a zip of EPSView. That worked perfect for me – with Quick Look being able to preview eps-files again (M1 Pro on Monterey).
So happy for this! Once again, thank you John.

For all those of you who are having the same issue, here is a link for EPSView:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1512170659861909510

(Do a restart after installing).

Thanks! EPSView worked for me. No restart needed, either!

 

[flybynight]

Thanks! EPSView worked for me. No restart needed, either!

I did some more reading, and I went with the instructions found here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253307271?answerId=256463704022#256463704022 to modify the old Illustrator.qlgenerator file and move it to /Library/QuickLook. I think it gives a nicer preview without so much white space around the image.

 

[MacGizmo]

I did some more reading, and I went with the instructions found here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253307271?answerId=256463704022#256463704022 to modify the old Illustrator.qlgenerator file and move it to /Library/QuickLook. I think it gives a nicer preview without so much white space around the image.

This worked for me, so thanks for sharing the link... it saves a lot of frustration.