I work with a lot of white svg images with transparent background. I am not able to view these files in quickView or finder thumbnail preview.
Please provide a OS level solution, not an app that I have to open every time I want to preview the image.
Attached screenshots.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)
In icon view yes…
right-click in the folder you want to change and choose view options.
No you cannot change the background of the "THUMBNAILS" to any other color this way. There has to be some hack somewhere in the plist etc.
This is a user-to-user forum.
If you want to make a feature request, you need to use the feedback page:
In the meantime, you might want to try
pressing option-space for Quicklook in full screen. This seems to have a black, rather than white, background. The drawback is that you cannot easily navigate through the files with the arrow keys.
Thanks Luis, I filed the feedback but I know the problem will not be solved by apple as then tend to ignore the users. I was hoping someone outside the company might have created a hack to make the thumbnail background dark colored/or transparent overlay.
option-space for Quicklook for svg is still white.
SukhiAatma wrote:
option-space for Quicklook for svg is still white.
Yes, you are right. I had tried with a transparent png file, since I did not have an svg file at hand. It does show as black for png, but not for svg.
So far, no solution without opening the file, but I did find a free viewer in the App Store, called Gapplin, and it does have a "dark mode", which can be set as the default. It also brings its own quicklook generator, which I hoped might help, but alas it does not seem to be any different than the default.
I tried Gapplin (as you can see in my screen shot) but it did not fix the quicklook as it promises on its website.
Graplin is trying to fix this issue.
https://bitbucket.org/1024jp/gapplin/issues/59/quicklook-of-white-pure-svgs
So it has been a year and still no fixes from apple. Is there any other way that I can change the default white background of thumbnails to greyish color.
My fault. I assumed you just meant the background.
No hack I'm aware of. I don't have any SVG's with a transparent background to test.
White SVG with transparent background is not visible in Finder or QuickView
