Zoom. Pan. Go.
Inspired by Jef Raskin, our zoomable user interface shows you all the stuff on your computer on a single surface. Using zoom and pan to view, arrange and open documents feels so right. In minutes you’ll appreciate the simplicity and intelligence of our answer to the traditional desktop. Take a spin and see for yourself.
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Features
Interaction: A Seamless Experience
- Zoom and pan to open, find, edit and organize documents
- Quickly navigate across the Raskin Surface [⌥⌘2 to show entire Surface – ⌘1, ⌘2, … to go to Places]
- Trackpad, Magic Trackpad, and Magic Mouse gesture enabled
- Works together with Finder and Spotlight
- Select single or multiple items anywhere on the Raskin Surface, across multiple folders
- “Zoom away” from any document straight into Raskin [⌥⌘-Scroll or ⌥⌘R]
- “Zoom in” to open document in its application
- Real-world animated zoom transitions
- Improved “Open with” over Finder
- Fast and easy to install
- Built-in support and automatic updates
What People Say About Raskin
Visualizes your hard drive
like a huge sliding, zooming
bulletin board with buttery
smooth animated transitions.
Stuart Gripman on Macworld.com
Bring some of the iPhone
experience to your Mac
and turn your desktop
into a productivity tool.
Support
You’ll Probably Find All The Help You Need In Our Manual
See Raskin ManualQuestion And Answer Of The Day
How do I add files to Raskin?
Just drag the document or folder to the Raskin icon in the Dock.
Your Question
Please write to support@raskinformac.com or select Support from the Raskin Help menu.
Applications That Love Raskin
There’s a couple of ways your documents are linked to their corresponding window in another application. Some applications love Raskin more than others — the more stars ☆ the more love.
- Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro ☆☆
- Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 ☆
- Adobe Fireworks CS4 ☆
- Adobe Illustrator CS4 ☆☆
- Adobe InDesign CS4 ☆☆
- Adobe Photoshop CS4 ☆☆
- Adobe Reader 9 ☆
- Finder ☆☆☆
- iWork Keynote ☆☆☆
- iWork Numbers ☆
- iWork Pages ☆☆☆
- Microsoft Excel 2004 ☆☆
- Microsoft Excel 2008 ☆☆
- Microsoft PowerPoint 2004 ☆☆
- Microsoft PowerPoint 2008 ☆☆
- Microsoft Word 2004 ☆☆
- Microsoft Word 2008 ☆☆
- Preview ☆
- QuickTimePlayer 7 ☆☆☆
- QuickTimePlayer X ☆☆☆
- Safari ☆☆
- TextEdit ☆☆☆
All these apps allow switching back to Raskin while leading to the correct location on the Surface.
- ☆ Works if access for assistive devices is enabled in System Preferences (using Accessibility API)
- ☆☆ Works even without Accessiblity API
- ☆☆☆ Works seamlessly either way
Developers
Easily Tweak Your App for Seamless Zooming
There’s a couple of ways you can get your App on the Applications that Love Raskin list. All you have to do is let Raskin know where your open windows and documents link to in the file system. We thank you for supporting Raskin and don’t forget to tell us, so we can add you to the list.
How To Integrate Better With Raskin:
Raskin uses the Accessibility API (also known as UI Scripting) to access the URL of the frontmost window/document in your application. In your application, please use: NSWindow - (void)setRepresentedURL:(NSURL *)url of NSWindow to set a proxy icon on your document windows or use: NSDocument - (void)setFileURL:(NSURL *)absoluteURL
The AXAPI will then expose NSAccessibilityDocumentAttribute or AXDocument for Raskin.
How To Integrate Best With Raskin:
To fully integrate with Raskin, use AppleScript to expose the following properties:
- Standard Suite > Class window > Property id: return the CGWindowID of this window
- Standard Suite > Class window > Property document: return the document item
- Standard Suite > Class document > property path: return the full path of the document or
- Standard Suite > Class document > property path: return the URL of the document encoded as file:// string or
- Standard Suite > Class document > property URL: return the URL of the document (using StandardAdditions Internet Suite)
- Or use any other means of providing us with a path or a URL. Most of the Applications we support do it a bit differently. Using System Event > Disk Item, POSIX file, or any other similar class
- To link the Document with a Screenshot, Raskin uses CGWindowID
CGWindowID wid = HIWindowGetCGWindowID([yourNSWindow windowRef]); return wid;
See TextEdit as Example.
Please send us an E-Mail support@raskinformac.com when your app is integrated. Then, we’ll add your app to the list of Applications That Love Raskin.