Quicksilver Large Type

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You know how you can make Quicksilver display massive large type on your screen? (By Hitting . then typing free text, select View Large Type under actions and hit Enter).

Well, does anyone know of a way to do that programmatically? Also, is quicksilver even required or is it built into OS X? I would love to be able to trigger that from bash.

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered May 05 '11 at 18:41

You can do this with Applescript, so therefore you can so it in bash with the osascript command:

osascript -e 'tell application "Quicksilver" to show large type "Hello, world."'

I think that "Large Type" was previously available in the services menu, but I don't see it in Snow Leopard. I might be wrong about that. A similar feature is found in Address Book -- right click on a telephone number.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 05 '09 at 17:47

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There's no special sauce here. It's putting up a window with the text you type displayed in a large font. Duplicating the effect in a Cocoa app is trivial.

answered Aug 05 '09 at 17:47

Chuck

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but there's no built-in way to do it from terminal? – devth Aug 06 '09 at 16:57
No. There's no built-in way to show any arbitrary window from the Terminal as far as I know. – Chuck Aug 07 '09 at 17:40

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 23 '12 at 15:00

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If you like to know how they exactly implemented it, you can look at the global method QSShowLargeType in their source here:

https://github.com/quicksilver/Quicksilver/blob/master/Quicksilver/Code-QuickStepInterface/QSLargeTypeDisplay.m

answered Dec 23 '12 at 15:00

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 21 '15 at 22:34

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You could do it inside your browser with large-type.com:

$ open http://large-type.com/#YourText

answered Dec 21 '15 at 22:34

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 09 '09 at 20:09

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It is confirmed to be fixed in the next release (after b56a7). Better keep an eye on the download area: http://code.google.com/p/blacktree-alchemy/downloads/list

answered Sep 09 '09 at 20:09

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I think your answer has nothing to do with this question. – housemaister Sep 12 '09 at 09:48
I disagree. The feature he asked about will be implemented in the next version. Since Quicksilver has a script component it is very well possible to set this up properly the way asked. – Nicolinux Sep 13 '09 at 09:38
so your answer assumes QuickSilver is required then, correct? – devth Oct 05 '09 at 21:03
The question was about Quicksilver, so I guess yes. Hate down-votes :/ – Nicolinux Apr 10 '12 at 13:32

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