sid
nospam wrote:

nospam
In article <1664657.oMNUckLgyt@thecrap.blueyonder.co.uk>, sid <sidney@sidshouse.net>wrote:

ray carter
As I understand it, most all the open source software is based on dcraw - so they're going to have similar capabilities with different interfaces and some extensions.

nospam
and with similar limitations.

sid
what limitations are these?

nospam
everything has limitations and dcraw is no different. among its limitations are it's speed, quality and supported cameras, as well as its user interface.

ray carter
In the past, I've found dcraw useful to get a quick look at things by extracting the jpeg thumbnail (dcraw -e).

nospam
once again, more work than needed. on a mac, there's no need to run anything (especially using a command line). a simple tap of the space bar gives a quick look of nearly any file (photos, pdfs, spreadsheets, zip files and much more), which is why it's called quick look.

sid
So how does quick look know which file you would like to see?

nospam
the ones you have selected. obviously.

sid
Selected where?

you must be running something to be able to see files to select.

That's not some sort of file manager you are running is it?

do you think happens when you tap the spacebar? It runs some viewing software, so that's 2 things you've run.