Q: Custom Quartz Filter In Preview Not Showing Up

midnightmac

Just copy your filter from

 

/Users/YourName/Library/Filters/

 

to /Library/PDF Services/

 

 

and the customized profile will be back in preview.

 

Cheers

Thank you for this - your suggestion made me look like a mac genius to my client!!

In ColorSync I just dont see where the Filters are? Top Bar?

Right down the bottom left corner: "Match to Profile".....

Indeen ! It works nicely on OS X (10.9.5).  Thanks a lot for posting.

did anyone manage to get this work in Yosemite?

Just to summarize how to get this to work from the previous helpful posts:

Download the Quartz filters from GitHub using the link below.  At the bottom right you can download all of the files with the "download zip" link.

https://github.com/joshcarr/Apple-Quartz-Filters

Drag the folder from the downloads to the desktop.  The files will have the ".qfilter" extension.

Open Finder and use <Cmd><Shift>G and enter "/System/Library/Filters"

CAUTION: Do not place these in "PDF Services" folder or create a new "Filters" folder in your user Library folder.

These need to go in the System/Library folder to work.

You should see the standard Quartz Filters that Preview uses.  Drag the new filter files that you downloaded to this folder.

It will prompt you for an Admin password to add these.

That is all the setup you need.

Then in Preview, either use <option> while pulling down the File menu to get the SaveAs option, or use Export... option.

At the bottom of the dialog box make sure the save Format is PDF in the drop down.

Then a Quartz Filter drop down will have all the new Quartz filter options available.

Pick the desired compression and save the file.

Thanks to everyone for great help.

I know this was forever ago that you posted this but it just helped me BIG time so I had to say thank you

So incredibly helpful. Thank you very much. This was such a bad change on Apple's part, glad to know it can still be worked around.

Apple should hire you if they haven't already. :-)

This totally helped me!  Thank you so much. 

In El Capitan the "/System/Library/Filters" is protected and the filters can't be added…

Any ideas?

Here is a link that tells you how to temporarily disable that protection:

http://qr.ae/RP29Qj

I've just upgraded to El Capitan and saw my custom quartz filters gone... Googled for some help and found this thread....

I see I'm not the only one with this problem....

Any other method to disable the folder protection...? Nathan's method looks a little scary....

thanks.

This worked for me under El Capitan

midnightmac

Just copy your filter from

/Users/YourName/Library/Filters/

to /Library/PDF Services/

Perfect.

Yes this worked. Thanks all for helping me keep my workflow.

Regards,

Fernando Velarde

Thank you! This was extremely helpful!!