Quicksilver Large Type

Question

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.

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

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

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

Answer 5

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