Displaying Painter RIF File Icon Previews (Mac OSX)
If ever you find that your Rif images only display a generic icon instead of a thumbnail preview in the Finder or on the Desktop, then here is something to check (Mac OSX 10.5.7, but may be applicable to other OS versions too). 1. Check that the Rif Quick Look Plugin is Installed If you [...]
Searching Painter RIFF Images (Mac OSX)
Mac OSX Tiger saw the introduction of Spotlight as a system-wide desktop search feature. To take advantage of this, Corel subsequently released a free Spotlight Importer plug-in to enable metadata searching of Painter’s native RIFF files. For searching our Painter Rifs on the Mac, this allows us the opportunity to search for all text within [...]
