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November 10, 2024
Question

No thumbnails of PDF files in Windows (11) Explorer

  • November 10, 2024
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Hello...

 

I tried Enable PDF thumbnail previews in Windows Explorercheckbox in  Preferences, but that did not work. I am using Mystic Thumbs which shows thumbnails of all the other Adobe apps successfully (Photoshop, InDesign, etc) but no luck with PDF files...so I am assuming (possibly wrongly) that the problem is not with Mystic Thumbs.

Is there another way to enable this...through the registry, perhaps?

 

Thanks.

ssander

2 replies

amazing_meadow8759
Participant
February 11, 2025

Hey, I found a solution - just install Ghostscript and voilla

https://www.ghostscript.com/releases/index.html

Abambo
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 10, 2024

You do need to enable an option in Acrobat, which will install the required helper files.

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/enable-pdf-thumbnail-preview-windows-explorer.html

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
SS000Author
Inspiring
November 10, 2024

I already tried that, and it did not work.

Steve

Adobe Employee
November 19, 2024

Hi Steve

 

Please try disabling Mystic thumbs and then turning ON the preference as mentioned here:

 

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/enable-pdf-thumbnail-preview-windows-explorer.html

 

Let us know if that fixes the issue.

 

Thanks

Tanvi