[Radiance-general] Mac Tiger quirks

[Gregory J. Ward]

Hi Rob,

Did you try doing a "Get Info" from the Finder on a .pic file and  
telling it to set the default application for all files of this type  
to Photosphere?  That's what I would try.  It's better to use  
the .hdr suffix, because Macintosh PICT files sometimes use .pic  
rather than .pict as their suffix, and this confuses OS X no end.  In  
particular, Tiger is always running it's mdimport application on .pic  
files, which takes forever to figure out that it's not actually a  
PICT file at all but a Radiance picture.  The details of why this is  
are hard to explain and I'm not sure I understand them myself, so  
it's just better to use .hdr for Radiance pictures on the Mac.  I  
should probably change rad to use this suffix by default, but it's  
hard to change a convention like that without breaking a lot of  
things other people have built on it.

-Greg

P.S.  Regarding Thomas' comments *.exr is the OpenEXR format, and  
*.hdr is usually interpreted as Radiance format under OS X.  The  
latest mouse from Apple is 3-button, and there is generally good  
support for third-party three-button mice.  The one-button mouse  
works using the control- and option- keys, but it's a pain that way.   
There is a good set of OS X books available from O'Reilly, which may  
even be found as free PDFs online.  My favorite is "Mac OS X for Unix  
Geeks," which I found on the web somewhere.  I have the hardcopy as  
well, but I can't seem to locate the link at the moment -- maybe it  
was a fluke.

On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 10:08:31 -0700, Fitzsimmons, Rob wrote:

> I've upgraded to Tiger, and now I have problems changing the  
> default to open
> pic files with Photosphere
> What I do:
>  select a .pic file - Get info
> it will open with Preview - I tell it to open with Photosphere
> I select "Change All" to make all my .pic file to open with  
> Photosphere
> I get a pop-up and I confirm that's what I want to do
> I go back to the get info screen - and its set to open with Preview.
>
>  i can do it one at a time, but I can't get it to change all.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>