CocoThumbX creates and removes 128x128 Mac OS X icons for pictures and saves them into the resource fork, or save them to a separate folder. Just drag your files or folders onto the application icon or the drop place in CocoThumbX, it will start to create beautiful icons. CocoThumbX support nice shadows like iPhoto or Photoshop.
What's new in CocoThumbX
Version 3.1:
Google Video (gvi) support
Fixed crash at startup if the font "Futura" was not installed
Fixed problem that CocoThumbX does not quit automatically on slow machines
Fixed problem if current user has no write permissions to his own folder ~/Library/Services
CocoThumbX will show the message once, after that please copy the Service-tool included in the DMG to ~/Library/Services.
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I'm thankful to see that there are developers such as this that are providing thumbnail creator apps... but... why do the thumbnails for 'full image' preference appear blurry?
This never happened when I used QuickImageCM (no longer supported in SnowLeopard).
I'm thankful to see that there are developers such as this that are providing thumbnail creator apps... but... why do the thumbnails for 'full image' preference appear blurry?
This never happened when I used QuickImageCM (no longer supported in SnowLeopard).
Still getting services error with 3.0.2. I *do* have a services folder in my user library, and there never has been a CocoThumbX service in there. I'd love to be able to get this to work, but it just won't. :(
Great.
But it would be great if the icons are more discernible.
Like movies with that vertical black bars with holes for example.
So the file extension would not be necessary to be on.
An Error Occured
Can not install or register the new CocoThumbX Service. Please go to ~/Library/Services and delete the CocoThumbX service manually.
Then restart CocoThumbX
on launch after updating from an older version. I don't have a ~/Library/Services folder on my Mac. Where is the service installed?
OSX 10.4.9
I like this!
I just wish I had an option to save the icon thumbnail when you choose the Save Icns option.
That way you would not have to go back to CocoThumb and choose Add Thumbnail once again, on the just saved .Icns file.
This would replace Iconverter completely for me.
really great work ! previously i used PictoIcon or ThumbsUp, or even Pinki... but this is definitely the best app for creating thumbs icon right like photoshop icons, I.E. with beautifull shadows !
reasonably fast, and it works perfectly well on macintel under rosetta (macmini OSX.4.6...)
thanks for this work, and maybe an universal binary release for soon ?
magosilvan --- Yes of course you could always later replace QT 7.01 with QT 7.04.
Everyone --- Despite what Sven says, the crippled CocoThumbX 2.2 update for 7.04 users still results in a crash when an image or folder is dropped on it..
But I got it to work with QT 7.04 by first launching CocoThumbX and UNCHECKING "Run task in Thread."
After downloading and installing the ReInstaller for Quicktime from Apple http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/quicktime701reinstallerforquicktime704.html
CocoThumbX works as it should.
Best
Sven Janssen
Each time that I start CocoThumbs I get the spinning beach ball for about 30 seconds. I have repaired permissions, but still no change.
OS X 10.4.3, Quicktime Pro 7.0.3, Version 2.1
I almost left without saying THANK YOU!
As everyone else has been saying... Great piece of software. Brillant and easy to use.
Again, THANKS for making this free!
Mike
One of the best free apps for OSX! I use it everyday.
I have a few suggestions though :)
Would it be possible to put a button in the toolbar that collapses the window down to just the "Drop your files here" section. Most of the time I use the same settings on the right side of the window, and it would be less intrusive on the desktop if it were possible to hide these options.
Also, I know that you listed 10.4 as the requirements, but I thought I'd let you know that it works on 10.3.9 as well - the only problem I've found is that it often crashes when I drag images onto the dock icon.
Aside from these issues, it's a great program. Keep up the good work!
(ibook, 1.2 GHz G4, 10.3.9)
WOW, this little app does EXACTLY what you want it to do and it does it quickly, quietly, cleanly and it works like a freakin' CHAMP!!! Get it, use it, and definitely make a donation to this guy 'cause he deserves it, big time! AAA+ rating, big "thumbs up" from me!!! (Get it? It makes thumbnails and I gave it a "thumbs up"! Har! ;-)
what i meant is that none of the other apps leave photoshop files alone. They all "erase" their icons. This would be a 'stand-out' addition to cocoathumbs.
really coool, but one thing that would really make this app stand out is if it just left layered photoshop files in a folder alone, instead of replacing their already nice icons with the white "Saved without a composite image" screen haha. None of the other thumbnail apps do this, and I would like to be able to just drop my pictures folder on cocoathumbs with no worries that it would effectively remove the icons from all my layered photoshop files. Thanks!
I'm really happy you implemented icon creation from text files, but I'm rather disappointed in how you changed the way it hands .pdf files. Prior to 1.7, PDF icons would show the ENTIRE first page, like Preview does in the drawer, but now it's just a small snippet of the upper left hand corner. Maybe you could keep text file generation in everything the way it is, but return PDF files to how they were?
Started to use it instead of QuickImageCM which takes a while to load from context menu if a number of files are selected. However, the thumbs created with QuickImageCM are decidedly sharper so I'll switch back
I'm not expecting anyone do this, for it would be too difficult (I only assume it would be, I'm not developer), or too CPU intensive:
Allow it to make thumbnails of text files and .doc files, etc. How? It opens the file for a split second, takes a screenshot of the file within the window, closes the program, and shrinks that image to 128x128. That'd be great. :-)
P.S. You would owe me royalties if you did that, it's my idea ;)
It doesn't always get every one of the images I tell it to. When I repeat the function with the image it didn't work on, it says it works, but there is no result in the finder. I also remember a time when I was converting an image back and forth, and suddenly, it changed to the Mac OS default thumbnail, and wouldn't be allowed to convert again.
What's the deal with this behaviour; is it the finder or CocoThumbX? Anyone?
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