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10.4: Finder slideshows are a designer's best friend
Authored by: Spartacus on May 13, '05 01:00:00PM

It would be indeed terrific if starting such a slideshow from a window in list view didn't display the images in random order.

It would be even greater if it were able to resolve aliases.

And don't mention how great it would be to be able to browse a slideshow manually without the annoying control overly popping-up every time you move to the next picture.

Apple has managed to unify slideshows between iPhoto, the Finder and Preview, meaning they're all three equally annoying and useless.



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10.4: Finder slideshows are a designer's best friend
Authored by: gmartin on May 13, '05 02:01:17PM

For keyboard lovers out there, while in a Finder slideshow, pressing "i" will take you to the index of thumbnails; cursor keys to move forward/back or navigate in the index page; space-bar to play/pause or select an image in the index page; pressing "a" will display the image in actual size; pressing "f" will display the image full screen; the usual "esc" to exit. Interestingly "l" and "r" seemed to be mapped keys also but I haven't discovered their use yet.

Using the slideshow from Preview is almost an identical experience except that you can play PDF's as a slideshow, PDF's can't be shown as an index of thumbnails, only image files can be shown as an index. Preview also has an extra button in the slideshow pop-up for moving the currently viewed image (again not PDF) over to iPhoto.

Finally, if you hate the pop-up appearing as you navigate, and you have a PDF presentation in Preview, just click once on the background area and then leave the mouse alone - the keyboard navigation will now work without making the pop-up re-appear.

Finally, finally, Preview has some extra preferences for it's default behavior. Notably: Open all images in one window; open groups of images in single window; open each image in it's own window. If you have several/many images in a single window you can simply drag reorder them in the draw to make any fickle sequence you may want it to be in today ;-)



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10.4: Finder slideshows are a designer's best friend
Authored by: bgagnon on Jul 30, '05 06:39:17PM

I think I know what the l and r keys are for: rotation. In an application where rotating images is permitted (iphoto ? mail ?), l would rotate to the left and r to the right. Haven't tested this, though.



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10.4: Finder slideshows are a designer's best friend
Authored by: gmartin on May 13, '05 02:32:43PM

Another feature to help slideshows, if you have a number of images (not a PDF) open in a Preview window's draw, as well as being able to drag reorder the images you can also ctrl-click to show a contextual menu for Sort by: name, path, date, size, kind, keyword, custom*. If you pick one of these the draw is reordered and that specific bit of sort information is shown under each image name.

*custom appears to be unavailable



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10.4: Finder slideshows are a designer's best friend
Authored by: sdunlapa on May 13, '05 05:57:52PM

Complain, Complain, Complain...Oh wait a minute this is a hints website. I almost forgot.

So that being typed, here's a hint for ya Spartacus...Don't use it. Pretty simple if you ask me. If you have a better idea tell Apple. As far as I'm concerned this is a great feature.



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it nice, but without the overlay
Authored by: AdrianB on May 13, '05 07:06:32PM

I think the slideshow is great if there only was some way of getting rid of that overlay navigation when you navigation with cursors (that goes for iPhoto as well).



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