A Few Quick Finds

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The “market” for Quick Look plugins is heating up, and there are some really handy additions coming out. These are not hot off the press—I held on to them for a little too long—but they bear mentioning nonetheless…

First, a newer, better archive preview generator is available from the creator of BetterZip. It’s called BetterZipQL and can handle hierarchical previews inside of ZIP, TAR, GZip, BZip2, ARJ, LZH, ISO, CHM, CAB, CPIO, RAR, 7-Zip, DEB, RPM, StuffIt’s SIT, DiskDoubler, BinHex, and MacBinary, with very nice formatting. Despite some confusion due to the sidebar on the page, the plugin is free.

Second, for those of us who deal with a lot of vector graphics and layouts (at least InDesign layouts), SneakPeek Pro is a godsend. It allows Quick Look to open EPS, Illustrator and InDesign documents with a sidebar that shows the links (fonts and images) contained inside the file. It’s what I desperately needed and was the first thing I was disappointed with when I first got excited about Quick Look. Now it’s better. The plugin is currently $14.95 during its introduction (regular price $19.95).

Lastly, the first zip preview generator that came out had a folder preview companion. It was very handy, but had a few aesthetic issues that bugged me. William Szilveszter took it upon himself to fix that with a mod to both the zip and folder generators. Very nice.