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Quicksilver large type

Do you know how you can make Quicksilver display a massive large type on screen? (By pressing, then typing free text, select "View large type" under the action and press "Enter").

Well, does anyone know how to do this programmatically? Also, is mercury needed or is it built into OS X? I would like it to be able to call this from bash.

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There is no special sauce. He places a window with printed text in large print. Duplicating the effect in a Cocoa application is trivial.

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You can do this using Applescript, so you can do this in bash using the osascript command:

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

I think the “Big Type” was previously available in the services menu, but I do not see it in Snow Leopard. Maybe I'm wrong. A similar function is found in the address book - right-click on the phone number.

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

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

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You can do this in your browser using large-type.com :

 $ open http://large-type.com/#YourText
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It is confirmed that it is fixed in the next version (after b56a7). Better keep track of the download area: http://code.google.com/p/blacktree-alchemy/downloads/list

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