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EPS preview in finder not working in monterey

So again a bad bug in monterey. Before monterey osx could preview vector files like eps as thumbnail and by pressing the spacebar to open quicklook or in finder opening the gallery mode. Since updating to monterey this feature didn't work on my machines. Neither on my 2017 iMac nor on my 2013 mac Pro and not on my 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max 16. All files have only a EPS-Symbol instead of showing a preview.

Apple, bring us back the preview option please as soon as possible.

I tried every solution from new user, deleting caches, quit finder, reset quicklook by terminal, installing 3rd party quicklook plugins. Nothing helped. Like 6 years ago I need to open a 3rd party program to look inside my eps folder with hundrets of symbols which is not convient anymore.

Posted on Dec 9, 2021 4:47 AM

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Omark2k

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Posted on Jan 12, 2022 3:50 PM

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I found this working solution on Apple forum.

I tested it and it works great. Please pay attention to copy modfied qlgenerator in Library/QuickLook, NOT in System/Library/QuickLook

Copy the "Illustrator.qlgenerator" from "/System/Library/QuickLook" to your desktop or any other folder you have read/write access to.
Open "Illustrator.qlgenerator" by right clicking it and select "Show package contents".
Open "Info.plist" in the "Contents" folder with a text editor.
Find the line "<string>com.adobe.illustrator.ai-image</string>"
Insert "<string>com.adobe.encapsulated-postscript</string>" below it with the same indentation and save the "Info.plist" file.
Copy "Illustrator.qlgenerator" to "/Library/QuickLook"

If you did everything right, you should now have .EPS previews back again. That's a workaround until apple fixes it in the System/Library, hopefully soon.

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Jan 21, 2022 4:37 AM in response to Omark2k

Doesn't work, did exactly this, still .eps thumbnails aren't showing.

and yes I did everything correctly.

Feb 1, 2022 6:02 PM in response to etresoft

I need help also for EPS preview not working on Mac Monterey..

Feb 1, 2022 6:44 PM in response to aneelarick

I tried the same but didnt work at all. :(

Feb 1, 2022 6:46 PM in response to aneelarick

When I copy-pasted the playlist file to "/Library/QuickLook" the folder was emply.

Apr 18, 2022 11:55 PM in response to Omark2k

Thanks. I love you.

Jul 11, 2022 4:18 AM in response to DERJUNG

Thanks so much. This seems to have sorted it.

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Aug 24, 2022 9:49 AM in response to etresoft

what is your email address??

jinhua17

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Sep 1, 2022 6:38 PM in response to Omark2k

After this change, I needed to wait for several minutes before I can see the preview of eps in finder. Thank you for the solution.

etresoft

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Dec 22, 2021 1:47 PM in response to dialabrain

dialabrain wrote:

It is?

Show-nuff.

Are you aware of any and a source?

Yes. Alas, I am forbidden from posting it. I wrote a quick-n-dirty EPS viewer with QuickLook preview. A handful of people have contacted me asking for it. I'm not allowed to post a link. It just so happened that I needed to make a couple hundred icons for my mapping software and I wanted to quickly look through some old EPS clipart. And just then, my new computer can't preview EPS files anymore. So I made a fix. I might expand it with better SVG support. That seems to be the only reliable format for vector data exchange between my various non-Adobe apps.

dialabrain

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Dec 22, 2021 1:30 PM in response to FLYINGFOX23

FWIW, as a workaround, change the .eps extension to .ai.

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