http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: Preview on PDF files en Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:06:36 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/preview-on-pdf-files/page/2#post-36687 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:39:08 +0000 SarahJames 36687@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Hi ScottW - no, ... thumbnails on rtf (a format I rarely use anyway) is not a necessity at all, but I just had to come up with a 'one more' for you:)<br /> I'm sure I'll come up with a 'one more' in the future, but at the moment I'm pretty satisfied.<br /> (Already made a new drive backup this morning to be sure I get to keep this no matter what ... LOL)</p> <p>I did come across some shareware programs that give thumbnails of just about anything, so maybe one day I'll take the trouble of sniffing around to find a freeware one. Not everything needs to be a native Vista thing, right?<br /> Still, the new explorer rather pleases me (which I hadn't expected - I never used the standard windows explorer in my old Win98). I still use Irfanview (a lót!) for handling my photo's and images, but the thumbnailview in explorer is so good I rarely use the thumbnails of irfan any more.</p> <p>So, because I mainly use explorer and I use a lot of pdf, I would like to keep the thumbnails on my pdf files and still be able to open them with PDF Xchange (the preview is there for a short time after having had acrobat reader the default app to open the pfd, but after disk cleanup the thumbnails are replaced with the generic icon), preferably without the need to have acrobat reader installed.<br /> There you have it:)</p> <p>Greetz...,<br /> Sarah. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/preview-on-pdf-files/page/2#post-36571 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:31:52 +0000 ScottW 36571@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Sarah, nice of you to think of me. I hear you saying "one more" just as I predicted. :-)</p> <p>I don't get thumbnail previews for RTF, DOCX, XLS, or any other document formats. PDF files are the only ones I have that give thumbnail previews. The preview pane can handle all of these formats, so it ought to be possible to generate thumbnails.</p> <p>I took a quick look and didn't find any way to do this, but it's not something I'm interested in pursuing. Thumbnail previews for pictures makes sense, but for documents I don't feel the need. If I've forgotten what's inside one, I just launch it. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/preview-on-pdf-files/page/2#post-36528 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:05:54 +0000 SarahJames 36528@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>My result so far: I'll keep Acrobat Reader installed and default app for pdf files, because that's the only way I get it to work.</p> <p>If someone else comes up with a solution, let me know! I'm very interested:)</p> <p>(Oh and one more on my todo list - a thumbnail on rtf files seems like a great idea too ...<br /> Thinking of you, ScottW ;-D) </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/preview-on-pdf-files/page/2#post-36482 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:09:04 +0000 SarahJames 36482@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>So far no luck, I must have forgotten something in the regfile that needs to be there.<br /> But I need to reinstall Acrobat to find out what and I'm done for today.<br /> I'll give it another try later on.</p> <p>Goodnight everyone,<br /> Sarah. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/preview-on-pdf-files/page/2#post-36475 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:50:35 +0000 SarahJames 36475@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Hi ScottW - you're absolutely right. My fault entirely and indeed the Foxit app did great, just wasn't what I was looking for.<br /> But I'm getting close now - I'll be back soon:) </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/preview-on-pdf-files/page/2#post-36461 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:28:21 +0000 ScottW 36461@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Sarah, you really threw me off the trail by talking about a "Preview Handler". I had carefully checked all of your messages to make sure it wasn't a thumbnail viewer that you were after. Also, the PDFPrevHndlr.dll from Adobe is a preview handler, not a thumbnail viewer. That's why it didn't work for you, even though it probably was doing what it was supposed to!</p> <p>"What we have here is a failure to communicate." -- Cool Hand Luke. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/preview-on-pdf-files/page/2#post-36456 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:15:04 +0000 SarahJames 36456@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Back to the subject at hand - I found that when I open pdf with PDF Xchange they do nót give the thumbnail, that only worked for the files that just had been opened with Acrobat reader.</p> <p>And my regapp is done looking for all the entries, so I exported them and now I'll uninstall Acrobat and see if I can get the previes working with just pdfshell.dll and a couple of registry entries:) </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/preview-on-pdf-files/page/2#post-36453 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:05:28 +0000 SarahJames 36453@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>You mean they actually do have a choice??? LOL </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/preview-on-pdf-files/page/2#post-36449 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:55:55 +0000 Lighthouse 36449@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I think when kids leave school, they get 2 choices.<br /> Write subtitles for films (in a language you don't fully understand). or.<br /> Work on a major computer firm's helpline :) </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/preview-on-pdf-files/page/2#post-36445 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:43:41 +0000 SarahJames 36445@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I hate dubbed films! Lately they are rerunning the Four Fists series here (Bud Spencer And Terence Hill) and they are really really bad! A pity - I still love to see T. Hill:)</p> <p>Luckily in Holland they play films mostly in their original language with subtitles. Dubbing is very rare. And some gets lost in the translation, but watching films on Belgium channels is hilarious - they have such funny alternatives in translation from 'real' Dutch. (No offence meant to anyone from Belgium!) </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/preview-on-pdf-files#post-36443 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:37:50 +0000 SarahJames 36443@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Thanks Bartman:) </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/preview-on-pdf-files#post-36442 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:37:35 +0000 Lighthouse 36442@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Well SarahJames. I have watched quite a few films, that were made in America or UK. They are dubbed into French. And English subtitles added. An awful lot of the time, the spoken word, and the subtitles bear no resemblance to each other at all! </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/preview-on-pdf-files#post-36440 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:29:55 +0000 Bartman 36440@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p><a href='http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/lo-and-behold.html'>http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/lo-and-behold.html</a> </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/preview-on-pdf-files#post-36439 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:28:34 +0000 SarahJames 36439@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Really I should slow myself down a bit - the answer was there already ... (like most of the time LOL)</p> <p><a href="http://s212.photobucket.com/albums/cc103/RareSarah/?action=view&#38;current=2008-07-2121-26-45.png"><img src="http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc103/RareSarah/2008-07-2121-26-45.png"></a></p> <p>One of the replies in the discussion I mentioned above .. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/preview-on-pdf-files#post-36437 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:24:14 +0000 SarahJames 36437@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Thanks, Lighthouse:)<br /> Voila we use in Dutch too, the lo and behold I've got just from hearsay (like most of my English - I listen to tv, rather than read the Dutch translations underneath. LOL), but I wonder where that expression comes from.</p> <p>Still searching the registry for the dll that handles the preview. It has a different name than the one from the 8.1 version I think, because so far I haven't found it yet. Maybe later. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/preview-on-pdf-files#post-36432 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:09:26 +0000 Lighthouse 36432@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>lol. Good for you. Success once again.<br /> "Voila" is correct. And so is "Lo and behold" (note the lack of "w") :) </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/preview-on-pdf-files#post-36430 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:06:45 +0000 SarahJames 36430@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>BTW anyone using PDF Xchange? It's a gem:)<br /> Freeware, with just a tiny banner in the corner, but a lot of features and very fast.</p> <p><a href='http://www.docu-track.com/home/prod_user/PDF-XChange_Tools/pdfx_viewer/'>http://www.docu-track.com/home/prod_user/PDF-XChange_Tools/pdfx_viewer/</a> </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/preview-on-pdf-files#post-36429 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:02:50 +0000 SarahJames 36429@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Ok, now we're getting somewhere:)<br /> I downloaded the 8.0 version the link above gave and voila:</p> <p><a href="http://s212.photobucket.com/albums/cc103/RareSarah/?action=view&#38;current=2008-07-2120-55-32.png"><img src="http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc103/RareSarah/2008-07-2120-55-32.png"></a></p> <p>Thumbnails of my pdf files!</p> <p>Then I picked PDF Xchange as standard program to open pdf - and low and behold (is that the expression? ... Lighthouse will surely set me straight if not;-D) it still works</p> <p><a href="http://s212.photobucket.com/albums/cc103/RareSarah/?action=view&#38;current=2008-07-2120-58-12.png"><img src="http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc103/RareSarah/2008-07-2120-58-12.png"></a></p> <p>And now I'm gonna try to delete Acrobat and just keep the Acrobat preview handler ...<br /> If that doesn't work I'll keep Acrobat installed, because spacewise I don't need to delete it, but I just want to try. I'll keep you posted. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/preview-on-pdf-files#post-36425 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:47:17 +0000 SarahJames 36425@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Found this discussion - still reading ...</p> <p><a href='http://adobeforums.com/webx/.3bbf42f7.3c05718d'>http://adobeforums.com/webx/.3bbf42f7.3c05718d</a> </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/preview-on-pdf-files#post-36414 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:06:29 +0000 SarahJames 36414@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Thanks ScottW, the Foxit PDF handler works, but it was not what I meant.<br /> The preview it gives is in Outlook or the preview pane in Explorer (which I never use), like this:</p> <p><a href="http://s212.photobucket.com/albums/cc103/RareSarah/?action=view&#38;current=2008-07-2119-59-26.png"><img src="http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc103/RareSarah/2008-07-2119-59-26.png"></a></p> <p>What happens on the laptop is that you don't see an icon, but a small preview of the file, like you see a thumbnail of a jpg file. (Ohhh, that's what I should call it: thumbnail on pdf files;-D)</p> <p>And glad to know I'm not the only pc-perfectionist. LOL </p>