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Article #155Re: PDF Thumbnail Preview in Windows Explorer Broken in Windows 7 32bit
From: Christopher Muto
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:46
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:46
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Christopher Muto wrote: > On a Windows 7 Pro 32bit machine that had Acrobat Reader 9.2 installed > the PDF thumbnail preview worked great... until NitroPDF was installed. > Once NitroPDF was installed all we got were icons instead of thumbnail > previews in Windows Explorer. > -Clearing the icon cache via the Windows 7 disk cleanup utility did not > help > -Checking and then unchecking the 'never show previews' in Windows > explorer did not help > -Uninstalling PrimoPDF and uninstalling Acrobat Reader and reinstalling > did not help > -Setting Acrobat Reader back at the default PDF reader by changing the > files associations (including .AcrobatSecurity .FDF .PDF .PDFXML .PDX > .XDP .XFDX) > After all of these attempts to correct the problem we do have some > thumbnail preview functionality but it is not 100%. > We even tried installing the latest Acrobat Reader 9.2 but no joy. > I have seen plenty of complaints about Windows 7 64bit and this problem > but none about Windows 7 32bit. > > I would greatly appreciate any suggestion on how to solve this PDF > thumbnail preview problem. > > If nothing else, let this be a warning to you not to use NitroPDF! > > Thank you! Thanks anyway, but figured out a solution myself. Adobe's abysmal support made my company look elsewhere for a PDF editor and we ended up with Bluebeam Revu instead of the overpriced and poorly supported bloatware from Adobe. At nearly a fourth the price of Adobe's product we could buy Bluebeam for every computer in the office without braking the bank. And it works! ;)
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