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Subject:Re: Windows 7 and PDF thumbnails From:Kaye Adkins <kadkinsphd -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- riveraintech -dot- com> Date:Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:30:12 -0500
Thanks, Stephen. It works if I am opening files from Acrobat 9, but doesn't
apply to Windows Explorer (as, apparently, it does with Acrobat X). But I
can live with this; I'll just remember to access my PDFs through Acrobat.
It's easier than the other workarounds I've come across.
Kaye Adkins
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Dan Goldstein
<DGoldstein -at- riveraintech -dot- com>wrote:
> Thanks for the reference, Stephen. The kludge does work, but only on
> that single folder. All the other folders are still opaque to Adobe.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Arrants
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 1:28 PM
> To: Kaye Adkins; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: Windows 7 and PDF thumbnails
>
> Kaye Adkins asks:
> > I've just gotten a new computer with Windows 7, and find that I can't
> view
> > the PDF thumbnails anymore
> [Stephen Arrants]
> Are you using 64-bit Windows 7? This is a known problem. I haven't tried
> yet, but this is supposed to be a workaround solution.
>http://answers.acrobatusers.com/how-I-thumbnails-show-Acrobat-X-files-Wi
> ndows-7-Computer-I-looked-everywhere-q7945.aspx
>
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