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On the Shoulders of Giants

Paddy Xu edited this page Jul 3, 2017 · 10 revisions

QuickLook is standing on shoulders of several open-source libraries, named

  • AvalonEdit: the WPF-based text editor component used in SharpDevelop
  • dcraw: decoding raw digital photos in Linux
  • ExifLib: a fast Exif data extractor for .NET 2.0+
  • FFmpeg: a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video
  • FFmpegMediaElement: WPF MediaElement replacement based on FFmpeg
  • Font-Awesome-WPF: WPF & UWP controls for the iconic font and CSS toolkit Font Awesome
  • github-markdown-css: The minimal amount of CSS to replicate the GitHub Markdown style
  • ImageMagick: convert, edit, or compose bitmap images
  • Magick.NET: The .NET wrapper for the ImageMagick library
  • markdown-it: markdown parser, done right. 100% CommonMark support, extensions, syntax plugins & high speed
  • MSGReader: C# Outlook MSG file reader without the need for Outlook
  • MuPdf: lightweight PDF, XPS, and E-book viewer
  • PreviewHandlerHost: IPreviewHandler Revisited
  • SharpCompress: a fully managed C# library to deal with many compression types and formats
  • Sumatra PDF: a PDF, ePub, MOBI, CHM, XPS, DjVu, CBZ, CBR reader for Windows
  • WpfWebBrowserWrapper: a better WPF-Browser-Control (IE-Wrapper)
  • XamlAnimatedGif: a simple library to display animated GIF images in XAML apps