No thumbnails for XPM images

I used to see thumbnails for my xpm images in Finder, however now I no longer see any thumbnails or preview images. How does one fix this?

How long ago was that? Once upon a time various ai and eps files displayed thumbs in Finder, then they went away. And once Photoshop files with an alpha channel displayed correctly (I still can't believe that this was taken away and never returned). Apple giveth and Apple taketh away. AFAIK the best you can do is get a QuickLook generator that handles xpm files and then use it to see thumbs. There's one here:
http://rene.rebe.name/2008-11-27/ei-based-quick-look-pnm-and-xpm-finally/
I tried it and it seems to work without a problem.
Francine
Francine
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