Re: Windows 7 and PDF thumbnails

[Kaye Adkins <kadkinsphd -at- gmail -dot- com>]

My system is like Dan's--other thumbnail previews, but not for PDFs.

Kaye Adkins

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- riveraintech -dot- com
> wrote:

> Another oar in the water... My 64-bit Windows 7 shows thumbnail previews
> for other file types, but not PDFs. I have Acrobat 9 Standard.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Lauriston
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 12:25 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Re: Windows 7 and PDF thumbnails
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> On my 32-bit Windows 7 system with Acrobat 8 Standard I see thumbnail
> previews or PDFs in every view mode but Small Icons, List, and Details.
> You don't?
>
> 64-bit or 32-bit?
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Kaye Adkins wrote:
> > I have an extensive library of PDFs that I use for my teaching and
> > research, and I find viewing thumbnails a quick way to spot the PDF
> > I'm looking for (can see the main title, tell if it's a journal
> > article, etc.)
> >
> > I've just gotten a new computer with Windows 7, and find that I can't
> > view the PDF thumbnails anymore. I've looked at various user forums on
>
> > the Internet, and have found some explanations, but no satisfactory
> solution.
> > Does anyone know if there is a solution that doesn't involve messing
> > with the registry or something equally complicated? Some of the fixes
> > involved Acrobat Reader, but I don't even have Reader on this
> > machine--just Acrobat Pro 9. Is there a fix coming soon?
>
>
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