QuickLook plugin to visualize .car files (compiled Asset Catalogs)
https://blog.timac.org/2018/1112-quicklook-plugin-to-visualize-car-files/
The QLCARFiles QuickLook plugin lets you visualize the content of a car file. It extracts the assets using the CoreUI.framework, generates a webpage with all the images, and displays this webpage in the QuickLook window. The use of a webpage has several advantages, one of them being the possibility to render multiple images in a scrolling view.
- Display images and their dimensions and file sizes
- Support for png, pdf, gif, svg, video, ...
- Display named colors and their hex values
- Support for Light and Dark mode
- Generate the previews as HTML data to allow scrolling
- Display the total number of assets in the window's title
- Add a light gray background to images that are too white or transparent
- For thumbnails, render the best asset as icon and the number of assets
- The command line tool has a
-roption to dump all the car files found in a folder
macOS 10.14 or later is required. Please note that the precompiled binaries are not code signed. To install the precompiled QuickLook plugin, you should:
- Download and unzip
QLCARFiles.qlgenerator.zip - Remove the quarantine flag by running in the Terminal
xattr -c -r QLCARFiles.qlgenerator - Move
QLCARFiles.qlgeneratorto~/Library/QuickLook/QLCARFiles.qlgenerator. Note that you might need to create the folder~/Library/QuickLook/. - Execute in the Terminal
qlmanage -rto make sure the QLCARFiles plugin is loaded
Alternatively you can sign the precompiled binaries or recompile the application yourself.
- No support for special car files used by pro applications like Final Cut Pro.
- Assets of the following type are not supported: CUINamedExternalLink, CUINamedTexture, CUINamedModel, CUINamedRecognitionImage, CUINamedRecognitionGroup, CUINamedRecognitionObject, CUINamedVectorImage, CUINamedMultisizeImage, CUINamedLayerImage. So far I never encountered these types of renditions.
