No thumbnails of PDF files in Windows (11) Explorer

[SS000]

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

[Abambo]

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

[SS000]

I already tried that, and it did not work.

Steve

[Tanvi Rastogi]

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

[SS000]

It did not...but thanks, anyway for the suggestion. (I actually had tried that before) Please note that Mystic Thumbs does successfully show thumbnails for all the other Adobe docs: InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, EMF, SVG, all other vector an pixel files. Only PDFs don't get created...and they used to. I don't think I changed anything. 

[amazing_meadow8759]

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

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