CocoThumbX Mac OS X Thumbnail Creator

.: About this project

CocoThumbX is a freeware thumbnail creator for Mac OS X.
It is capable of creating and removing thumbnails from the common image file formats as BMP, TIFF, TARGA, GIF (animated), PNG, JPG, PICT, PDF, EPS, ICNS, JP2, SGI ... text files such as DOC, RTF, RTFD, HTML, CSS, TXT and QuickTime supported Movies.
CocoThumbX creates a thumbnail from your image and add the thumbnail as icon to your image file.
To get more infos take a look at the key feature list.

.: The News

Version 3.1: 05.04.2007

• Google Video (gvi) support

• Fixed crash at startup if the font "Futura" was not installed
• Fixed problem that CocoThumbX does not quit automatically on slow machines
• Fixed problem if current user has no write permissions to his own folder ~/Library/Services
  CocoThumbX will show the message once, after that please copy the Service-tool included in the DMG
  to ~/Library/Services.

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Version 3.0.2: 25.03.2007

• fixed problem with the ~/Library/Services folder
• fixed problem that the option on the back side of the application could be disabled

Version 3.0.1: 24.03.2007

• fixed that CocoThumbX would not add an icon to the file if the
  option "Create pre 10.3 compatible Icons" was enabled

Version 3.0: 24.03.2007

• New Widget like layout with preferences on the back side
• Create thumbnails and export image with a FrontRow like mirror effect
• Auto-rotate images by there given EXIF orientation tag
• Add a thumbnail by creating ICNS files
• Add background color by exporting images to non transparent image files like JPG
• DNG support

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Version 2.3: 17.07.2006

• Universal Binary (Intel/Mac)
• Finally fixed crash with QuickTime 7.0.4+ running CocoThumbX with multiple threads
• Register a Mac OS X Service to create and remove custom icon from single files in the Finder
  and/or create and remove icon for a selected folder including all images and subfolders.
  Take a look at the Service Menu from Finder after selecting a file.
  Or press Command+Shift+S to add an Icon, Command+Shift+R to remove an icon.
• automatically rotate images by there specified EXIF orientation
  
  
• Added a Monitoring Tool to watch folders (including subfolders ) on your harddisk
  and automatically add a custom icon to new or modified files. (i.e your movie or picture folders)
  Open the preferences and select "Monitoring".
  Enable the monitoring tool by activate the checkbox and add the folders ( Drag&Drop )
  to the list below. Enable the checkbox behind the folder to include subfolders.
  CocoThumbX will add/remove a login item for your current user and start/stop
  the CocoThumbXHelper tool. CocoThumbX will ask you for your Admin password if you activate
  the first time the monitoring tool.
  
  The monitoring tool will only run on Mac OS X 10.4+

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Information: 02.02.2006

Attention:
In some cases, CocoThumbX can not figure out which Quicktime version is installed. If CocoThumbX still crashes :

Open CocoThumbX without dropping images onto the application icon. Open the preferences and disable the option "Run Task in Thread". Close and reopen CocoThumbX.

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Information: 12.01.2006

After downloading and installing the Re-Installer for Quicktime 7.0.4 -> 7.0.1 from Apple http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/quicktime701reinstallerforquicktime704.html
CocoThumbX works as it should.

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Version 2.2: 11.01.2006

• This update is only for those who have installed QuickTime 7.0.4 and still want to use CocothumbX.
  I've disabled that CocoThumbX uses threads if QuickTime 7.0.4 installed.
  This update is not localized. Supported language is english only.
  
  I'm very sorry for this step, and i do not know if Apple change the behavior back that Quicktime
  can be used in a secondary thread.
  Remember this is a quick hot-fix and has no new official features.
  
  
• Note : If you have Flip4Mac installed. CocothumbX can create icons from WMV files, but crashes
  if it want to release the QTMovie object. This seems to be a problem with Flip4Mac or Quicktime.
  Quicktime Player itself crashes if you close the window which is playing a WMV file.

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Version 2.1: 13.11.2005

• Wait 2 seconds bevor start to choose the action
• RAW file support
• Zoom In/Out Main-Window ( reduce window size )
• Remove Custom Icons from Folders
• Enable/Disable scanning subfolders
• Disable Sounds

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News : 20.09.2005

Not bad, CocoThumbX was over 4-5 days a Hot Pick on the Main Apple Download Page and is now the #1 Hot Pick and #1 Top Download in the Imaging & 3D - Mac OS X Download section.
Thank to you all out there!

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Version 2.0: 14.09.2005

• JPEG 2000 import and export support
• Create thumbnails from every QuickTime 7.0 supported movie file
• Add Sharpen-Image option ( Preferences -> Advanced )
• New application icon : Special thanks goes to Donald Wienand
• Add Core-Image filters for image export:
  • Color Filters : Grayscale, Sepia and Invert.
  • Stylize Filters : Bloom, Crystallize, Edges, Gloom, Pixellate and Pointillize.

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Version 1.9.1: 03.07.2005

• Removed the option Round Border and replaced it with Round Image
• Extract Multipage Images like PDF and TIFF
• Does not enlarge size if the image size is smaller then 128x128 pixel
• Advanced Image Preferences : Shadow Blur, Curve Factor and Curve Radius
• Create High Resolution Icons ( Tiger only and currently not visible )
• Save Icons as ICNS

• Bug Fix:
  • Fixed Shadow problems with transparent pictures

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Version 1.9.0: 05.06.2005

• Image Export:
  • Exporting by keeping image width and height
  • Fit image to width or height. Other side calculate by image proportions.
  • Label Image with another image.

    

  • Preview of every image bevor exporting them.

    

  • Disable creating and removing icons from specified file extensions.

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Version 1.8.3: 30.04.2005

• Added HFS Type support for images
  
• Fixed Anti-Aliasing problem

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Version 1.8.2: 24.04.2005

• Traditional Chinese Localization

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Version 1.8.1: 23.04.2005

After so many people complained about the reduced Anti-Aliasing ;-)

• Set the Anti-Aliasing back to High

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Version 1.8: 22.04.2005

• Round Border
• Free Shadow Offset
• Render HTML Websides
• Repeat last files via shortcut
• Reduced Anti-Aliasing
• enlarged Thumbnails ( wasted to much space )

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News : 19.04.2005

Wow ... thanks to you all for downloading CocoThumbX. It's second on the Apple Imaging&3D Most Popular Ranking

10.000 copies downloaded so far in 40 day ... terrific

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Version 1.7: 15.04.2005

• Creates thumbnails from text files such as : txt, rtf, rtfd, doc, pdf, css, c, m and so on...
  Take a look at the preferences
  ( Using Antiword to convert doc files )

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News : 10.04.2005

Currently working on to create icons from text files such as TXT, HTML, RTF, RTFD, C, M and so on.
Also working on PDF and WORD DOC support. (example images see below)

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Version 1.6.1: 8.04.2005

• Add German Localization
• Fixed crash by open the window after it has been closed

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Version 1.6: 7.04.2005

• Label Thumbnail with Text (Save Thumbnail only)
• Create Error Log from files CocoThumbX could not add thumbnail
• Add Preference Panel

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Version 1.5: 3.04.2005

• use the label color as border color
• added prefix and suffix by creating thumbnails
• save thumbnails with web ready filenames (lowercase and without spaces)

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Version 1.4: 2.04.2005

• After so many people misunderstood the main task of this application.

  "I dragged some images to CocoThumbX and it ate them, but I have no idea where it put them?"

  i decided to add the feature that you can create thumbnails and save them to a separate folder as JPG,PNG or TIFF images. This is an ideal quick way to create images for your webside.

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Version 1.3: 31.03.2005

• Fixed aspect ratio creating thumnails with shadow

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Version 1.2: 23.03.2005

• Reduced memory usage during creating thumbnails

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Version 1.1: 20.03.2005

• Create a border around the image with your desired color and width
• Keep modification date
• Fixed a minor multithread problem

.: Key Features

• Support all Cocoa Image-formats, all supported Quicktime movies, PDF, EPS, Word DOC every text file
• Support Core Image filters
• Drop Shadow
• Use Anti-Aliasing
• Draw thin border in your desired color ( or label color) and width
• save thumbnails to a separate folder
  With Suffix, Prefix and web ready filename
• low cpu and ram usage
• drop-able application icon
  ( simple drop files and folder onto the CocoThumbX application icon )
• quits after creating icons if it was closed before
• Multithreaded
• able to stay always on top
• Comes with Finder Service to add and remove icons from files in the Finder
• Monitoring Tool to automatically watch your folders (i.e your movie or picture folders)
• Universal Binary

.: Some Screenshots

.: Special Thanks

• Jack M.H. Lin for the Chinese Localization
• Troy Stephens for the IconFamily tools
• Creator from Antiword

.: User Comment

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