hey, I just found some undocumented features of pddplink. It seems to be possible to open any filetype with its default application. pddplink file:///Users/marius/pd/image.jpg will use preview on mac to show the image. for pd applications this works with local names pddplink anotherpatch.pd why is the local path not working with other filetypes? see also http://www.pdpedia.org/en/pddplink marius.