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PDF Icons used to Show Preview of Document - Now it shows PDF Icon

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February 25, 2009
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I am using Adobe Acrobat 8 on a 64bit Windows Vista Home Premium Operating System. I just bought this computer and installed Adobe Acrobat 8 on it. On my other two computers (one vista, one xp) the normal Adobe Acrobat File Icons are changed to show a preview of the first page of the document. I work a lot with long lists of Pdf files, and the preview feature has been a great help. I am wondering if there is a setting on my new computer that I need to change to replicate this function that I have been enjoying on my other two computers.

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Correct answer lisa_annd37346468

Hello All. I had the same issue. I am using Windows Home Premium with Service Pack 1. All I did to get the preview of my pdf files was to Open Acrobat Reader PC / Edit / Preferences / General - I then checked the box to "Enable PDF thumbnail previews in Windows Explorer" save your settings let Acrobat Reader do what it needs to do. (this only takes a few seconds) and that is it you will now have your previews.

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Hello All. I had the same issue. I am using Windows Home Premium with Service Pack 1. All I did to get the preview of my pdf files was to Open Acrobat Reader PC / Edit / Preferences / General - I then checked the box to "Enable PDF thumbnail previews in Windows Explorer" save your settings let Acrobat Reader do what it needs to do. (this only takes a few seconds) and that is it you will now have your previews.

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mbkeahey

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All of the thumbnails show up in Bridge.

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Grammylk

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I just got a new computer with Windows 8 O/S and Reader XI . My preview icons have now disappeared and only the pdf icon shows. Will this fix also work for Windows 8? Thanks!

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Grammylk

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I didn't receive any replies so decided to try the fix anyway - it worked! Thank you!

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_xxminixx

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Tried the fix - it ran correctly on Windows 8 64 bit, Adobe Pro - but the icons remain Adobe Logo no matter what I do - tried changing file properties to every conceivable combo - no luck - posted question in support forum... we shall see what Adobe says...

All-USA

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To show a PDF thumbnail / Icon:

1. Open Acrobat program

2. Select File, Open and then select a folder with pdf documents

3. Select View Menu, then select "Tiles"

Acrobat now shows a thumbnail / Icon / preview for pdfs in that folder

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arvo-42

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I am having the opposite problem, so I am hoping that the solution to yours might also entail a solution to mine. I just installed Adobe Reader 9 on Windows 7 Professional (32 bit), and now my pdf icons show up as previews. It's a nifty feature, but I'd prefer to turn it off. Does anybody know if there is a way I can get Adobe Reader 9 to use a fixed icon rather than a preview? Thanks.

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Anonymous

Did you ever find an answer for this??? I am sure you have since your post is rather old but just in case someone else gets here and needs it. I had the same issue and was searching for an answer. I saw this and since I fixed mine I thought I would tell you what I did.

Opened Windows Explorer -> Tools -> Folder Options

Go to the View tab

Check "Always show icons, never thumbnails"

Hit Apply

All your PDF files on your desktop should now show with the generic PDF icon.

Reverse this to get the preview icon "thumbnails".

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Priscilla235291913esr

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thank you - this was so helpful

groovegsus

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There is a fix for it :

http://www.pretentiousname.com/adobe_pdf_x64_fix/index.html

It will fix both the preview of icon is not showing and the preview of the content of the document is not showing

Download the fixes:

With installer: Adobe_Reader_x64_fixes_v2_002_installer.zip (1MB)
Without installer: Adobe_Reader_x64_fixes_v2_002_noinstaller.zip (1MB)

The installer and executables are digitally signed. Thanks to GPSoftware for signing them for me.

You'll need to re-run the preview-handler fixer each time you update Adobe Reader. A start menu shortcut is provided.

~graffiti

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Keep in mind that the above poster has only posted in these forums one time and the files he is pushing are not coming from the Adobe site.

They may be perfectly fine but I'm just saying...

groovegsus

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That's why i also posted the link to the original author's site ,

you can take the file directly there if you don't trust my links.

It solved my problems so i just wanted to share it.

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Anonymous

Marin85 on forum.thinkpads.com found a workaround to this problem. Seems that the problem happens on 64 bit systems. Win 7 32 bit version creates the .pdf thumbnail previews automatically with Adobe Pro v9. However, this is not the case with Win 7 x64. Note sure about Vista or XP, but it could be the same 32 bit/64 bit issue.

If the thumbnails are not being generated automatically, in order to create a thumbnail preview instead of the regular pdf icon, you only need to browse to some folder containing pdf files FROM WITHIN ACROBAT READER and select the 'Tiles' view from within the 'Open files' window. Then Acrobat creates thumbnail previews to the pdf documents contained in that particular folder.

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Anonymous

Howdy.

Thanks for this solution, it worked for me. I too just switched to Vista x64 and have the issue where my scans were not previewing and only showing the red Acrobat icon. I opened the reader, chose File Open and pointed it to my folder of PDFs and chose Views/Large Icons and it created thumbnails that were available to Windows Explorer. Thanks, this was, like the other folks, really bothering me!

--dave