Custom Quartz Filter In Preview Not Showing Up

The solution I realized involves the following:

• Right click the PDF file you desire to work with and then select "Open with..."
• Select the "Colorsync Utility" application
• The Colorsync Utility will open up with your PDF file
• At the bottom of Colorsync Utility status bar, you can select the quartz filter you wish to apply (including any custom ones you made)
• Press "Apply"
• Save the document

I hope this workaround can hold up for now. I do admit I miss the ability to see and use my quartz filters right out of preview.

Take care.

Same issue here.

I went so far as to remove my custom filters and re-create them. No luck. Still not showing up in the File->Export Quartz Filter list.

This is a significant issue as I use these filters as part of my daily workflow. Any suggestions?

Thanks

I am having the same problem...why would they change something like this that we all use???

If you have the answer...let us know.

Nice find. I wasn't aware that ColorSync could open files. Learn something new every day.

This certainly works and is a step forward. Thanks for sharing.

Hopefully Apple will get around to fixing this obvious bug in Preview so we can reduce the number of steps.

Thanks.

Hey, glad to be of help.

Brilliant - saved me hours of searching around for an answer!

Just copy your filter from

/Users/YourName/Library/Filters/

to /Library/PDF Services/

and the customized profile will be back in preview.

Cheers

This folder is hidden in OS X Lion. Press "Shift+Command+G" and type in "/Users/YOURNAME/Library/" in the path to be directed to the Library folder.

Best of luck.

Hi,

thanks for that one, but with my settings, I have no file change, only if I use the built in reduce file size.

Any idea?

Ok, got it now.

Needed to generate new filters (Kopy the normal Reduce File size and changed it)

Then I had to transfer them like midnightmac said.

And then it works. I reduced 11,5 MB to 2,7 MB with still accaptable results.

Thanks all together

Thanks!! Saved me time and frustration :-)

Thanks again! There's always someone with the same problem and someone else smart enough to fix it! 😉

Din anyone reported this bug to Apple?

I'm sure that the expected behavior is not to require you to copy the new filters to system directory. This looks like a bug in Preview.app.