Jpeg questions

K

kevs

Is there any way to have the OS open jpegs in Photoshop, but in Entourage
have them open in Preview?

Thanks.

OS 10.3.7
Office 2004
 
C

Craig Deutsch

Kevs, it's my experience that JPEGs that have been originally opened with or
edited in Photoshop and resaved as JPEGs will cause the OS to open them with
Photoshop regardless of their location. Such files have the yellow-ish icon
that indicates a Photoshop file.

Files that have not been created/modified in Photoshop contain the standard
Mac OS (blue-ish) icon -- and you'll notice that these are not visible in
thumbnail form in the finder. Such files are generally opened automatically
with Preview.

To answer your question, however, I do not know of a way to force the Finder
to treat them in the manner you've asked about. I, too, wouldn't mind being
able to do this...

Craig
 
K

kevs

Thanks Craig:

What my IDEAL, would be, would to have the OS default to open jpegs in
Photoshop, but, have Entourage have it's own default to open the in Preview.

I can't tell you how nice that would be.

Most jpegs then I could open in photoshop, except the e mail attachments I
get which would open quickly in Preview, and that's all I need for those.




Kevs, it's my experience that JPEGs that have been originally opened with or
edited in Photoshop and resaved as JPEGs will cause the OS to open them with
Photoshop regardless of their location. Such files have the yellow-ish icon
that indicates a Photoshop file.

Files that have not been created/modified in Photoshop contain the standard
Mac OS (blue-ish) icon -- and you'll notice that these are not visible in
thumbnail form in the finder. Such files are generally opened automatically
with Preview.

To answer your question, however, I do not know of a way to force the Finder
to treat them in the manner you've asked about. I, too, wouldn't mind being
able to do this...

Craig
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OS 10.3.8
Office 2004
 
C

Craig Deutsch

My Entourage installation handles JPEGs pretty well; since most of them are
not Photoshop files from MY computer, it pretty much always calls Preview to
launch and show the attachments.

CMD
 
B

Barry Wainwright

Save this script as a compiled script in the 'Entourage Script Menu Items'
folder, assigning it a command key if required (see details in the help for
how to do this).

It will open any JPG attachments in preview.

set folderPath to (path to temporary items from user domain) as text
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
try
set theMessage to item 1 of (get current messages)
on error
beep
return
end try
set theAttachments to every attachment of theMessage
repeat with aFile in theAttachments
set newFileName to folderPath & name of aFile
if newFileName ends with ".jpg" then
save aFile in newFileName
tell application "Preview" to open newFileName
end if
end repeat
end tell
 
K

kevs

Thanks Barry:
I go to the help menu and give this a whack. There is not pre-made script
for this you know of I can just drop in?








Save this script as a compiled script in the 'Entourage Script Menu Items'
folder, assigning it a command key if required (see details in the help for
how to do this).

It will open any JPG attachments in preview.

set folderPath to (path to temporary items from user domain) as text
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
try
set theMessage to item 1 of (get current messages)
on error
beep
return
end try
set theAttachments to every attachment of theMessage
repeat with aFile in theAttachments
set newFileName to folderPath & name of aFile
if newFileName ends with ".jpg" then
save aFile in newFileName
tell application "Preview" to open newFileName
end if
end repeat
end tell
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OS 10.3.8
Office 2004
 
B

Barry Wainwright

Thanks Barry:
I go to the help menu and give this a whack. There is not pre-made script for
this you know of I can just drop in?
Click to expand...

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