| Re: macOS Sequoia 15.0 disables third-party QuickLook plugins; will indexing epubs still be available? [message #1848 is a reply to message #1847] |
Tue, 17 September 2024 11:48   |
FoxTrot Engineering
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This is true, third-party Quick Look plugins that use the deprecated API (generators) are no longer supported by macOS 15, and FoxTrot cannot use the new API (extensions) in the same way as it used the old one. However, some clarifications:
- this only affects the display of found documents; indexing relies on a different kind of plugins: Spotlight metadata extractors, which have not changed.
- Apple-provided Quick Look plugins are still supported, even though they still use the old generator API. So you can still benefit from occurrence highlighting and navigation for Pages or Numbers documents, for example.
- the new API is supported the way Apple wants third-party applications to support it, i.e. without giving the application access to the displayed data. FoxTrot won't be able to highlight or navigate through found occurrences when using these Quick Look extensions.
- you can still highlight or navigate through found occurrences by viewing the plain text version of the document as it was indexed
- to switch between the limited Quick Look preview, the plain text preview, or FoxTrot's enhanced preview when available, use the popup menu in the toolbar
Jérôme - FoxTrot Engineering
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