https://github.com/timac/qlcarfiles

QuickLook plugin to visualize .car files (compiled Asset Catalogs)
https://github.com/timac/qlcarfiles

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QuickLook plugin to visualize .car files (compiled Asset Catalogs)

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/timac/qlcarfiles
• Owner: Timac
• License: mit
• Created: 2018-11-12T07:45:18.000Z (about 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-07-30T20:12:21.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-25T11:46:19.586Z (19 days ago)
• Topics: macos, quicklook, quicklook-plugin, reverse-engineering
• Language: Objective-C
• Homepage: https://blog.timac.org/2018/1112-quicklook-plugin-to-visualize-car-files/
• Size: 117 KB
• Stars: 126
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 12
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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# QLCARFiles

QuickLook plugin to visualize .car files (compiled Asset Catalogs)

# Blog post

[https://blog.timac.org/2018/1112-quicklook-plugin-to-visualize-car-files/](https://blog.timac.org/2018/1112-quicklook-plugin-to-visualize-car-files/)

# Description

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.

## Features

- 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 `-r` option to dump all the car files found in a folder

## Installation

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:

1. Download and unzip [`QLCARFiles.qlgenerator.zip`](https://github.com/Timac/QLCARFiles/releases)

2. Remove the quarantine flag by running in the Terminal `xattr -c -r QLCARFiles.qlgenerator`    

3. Move `QLCARFiles.qlgenerator` to `~/Library/QuickLook/QLCARFiles.qlgenerator`. Note that you might need to create the folder `~/Library/QuickLook/`.

4. Execute in the Terminal `qlmanage -r` to make sure the QLCARFiles plugin is loaded

Alternatively you can sign the precompiled binaries or recompile the application yourself.

## Known limitations

- 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.

![](DemoAssets.png)