Preview FrameMaker Thumbnails in Windows Explorer

[barbshoop]

How do I preview FrameMaker thumbnails in Windows Explorer? We have a lot of text insets and need to preview them before we import them. Alt+P didn't work. Is there a setting somewhere? I can see Word, Excel and PDF previews, but not FrameMaker.

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

AFAIK there's nothing that will show that for you in Explorer.

[FieryPantone]

No sign of a preview for anything except a few graphics formats on my Windows 7 machine at work, so you're already doing better :-} If you can preview .pdf, perhaps you could compromise by making a .pdf from each inset …

[Matt S - Tech Comm Tools]

To build on FieryPantone's reply, you could also create (or contract to create) an ExtendScript to PDF everything in a given directory.

-Matt

[barbshoop]

I found this: Enable Previews for new file extensions | Annoying stuff I figured out (or am trying to)

It's a tutorial on how to change the registry files to recognize and preview .fm files. I can't say if it works because our Enterprise Security Office does not allow registry files to be changed. I'll report back if they reconsider. 

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Just tried it with it set to "text" - that doesn't work because FM files are binary, but if you set the "PerceivedType" key to binary, I don't know what value you would assign the data...

[barbshoop]

Thanks for trying. I'll use the convert-to-PDF workaround. That works well enough.