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Ashlar-Vellum Plug-ins for Spotlight

Below are the available Ashlar-Vellum plug-ins for Apple's Spotlight. Spotlight is the new deep-search feature found in MAC OS X 10.4 Tiger.

These plug-ins are freely downloadable but may not be redistributed. When used with Graphite Share, the Graphite Spotlight plug-in is a terrific combination for sharing and exploring Graphite files on systems without Graphite installed.

For more information about Spotlight, visit the Apple - Mac OS X - Spotlight page.



Graphite Plug-in for Spotlight

This Spotlight plug-in extracts information from Ashlar-Vellum Graphite files and places the information in Apple's Spotlight metadata store. Once stored, Spotlight and the various OS X Tiger applications can use the extracted information for fast file searches.

Graphite is Ashlar-Vellum's precision drafting software featuring the world-renown Vellum(R) user-interface.

Within Spotlight, the file "kind" for all Graphite v6 and v7 files is document. Keywords for extracted metadata are:

  • Text
  • Creator:
    (always "Ashlar-Vellum Graphite")
  • Authors:
    (1st entry, who created the file)
    (2nd entry, who modified it last)
  • Organizations:
    (1st entry, who created the file)
    (2nd entry, who modified it last)
  • Layers
  • Symbols
  • Work Planes
  • View Orientations
  • Sheets
  • Models
  • Views:
    (detail views)

The Spotlight plug-in extracts all the text in a Graphite file and places it in a block for easy searching. This is analogous to body text in an email or text document.

Other keywords may be available on Graphite files. Spotlight handles these keywords, and the metadata they show, for the documents on your computer.

Ashlar-Vellum Accessories – Graphite Spotlight Plug-in

Download the Graphite Plug-in for Spotlight v1.0 (260k for MAC OS X 10.4 "Tiger".)



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Ashlar-Vellum Accessories – Graphite Share
Share is a set of free utilities that allow your clients and collaborators to view, print and export Ashlar-Vellum files from their own desktops.

Share is available in three versions: Cobalt Share for .co, .xe, .ar and .vs files, Graphite Share for .vc6 files; and Vellum Share for .vlm files.
Click here to learn more.


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