Apple Mac OS X Tiger 10.4 EN CD Mac Retail Box M9639Z/A Fascicule

Technology Brief
Mac OS X: Spotlight

Spotlight Data Types

Spotlight provides comprehensive, organized search results by tracking all sorts of 
details about everything on your computer. Spotlight supports a large number of 
industry-standard file formats and metadata types right out of the box. In addition, 
developers can create plug-ins that enable Spotlight to discover specific formats and 
data types. 

• Plain text, RTF/RTFD
• PDF
• AppleWorks 
• Keynote
• Pages
• Images: GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, 

EXIF, DNG

• Adobe Photoshop
• QuickTime movies
• Music: MP3, AAC
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft PowerPoint

• Email from Mail
• Contacts in Address Book
• iCal events and to-do items
• iChat logs (if logged)

• Folders
• Applications
• Fonts
• System preferences

• Filename
• Author
• Date modified
• Date created
• Label
• Extension
• Type
• Creator
• Date opened/used
• Keyword
• Where from 
• Kind: image, presentation, 

movie, and so on

• Copyright 

• Page size
• Page count
• Line count
• Word count
• Text content

• Sender
• Recipient
• Subject
• Text content

• Name
• Address
• City
• Notes 

• Summary title
• Attendee
• Location
• Notes

• Buddy name
• Text chat content

• Slide titles
• Slide count
• Text content

Photos and images
All EXIF and IPTC 
metadata, including:

• Bits per sample
• Color space
• Profile name
• Image width/height
• Resolution width/height
• Aperture
• Camera brand

• Camera model
• Date/Time of original
• Exposure mode
• Exposure time
• Flash
• GPS
• ISO speed
• Orientation
• White balance
• EXIF version
• Layers (Photoshop files)
• Caption (IPTC)

• Acquisition source
• Codec
• Delivery type 
• Duration
• Format
• Total bit rate
• Audio bit rate
• Aspect ratio
• Color space
• Frame height
• Frame width
• Profile name
• Video bit rate

• Album
• Artist
• Genre
• Duration