Ps doesn't show thumbnails for saved dds files

[kellyy99042662]

The only thing that I can see for all of my saved dds files and svg files are Ps icons and no meaningful thumbnails like with other files like png's. Is there a reason for this? I would like to see whats inside the file from the thumbnail. 

Thanks for your help!! 

[gener7]

This should be supported in the Windows os, not Photoshop. The Open/Save dialogs are served up by Windows which would display the thumbnails. You will need a third-party utility to do this. I'd check Google for recommendations. 

[kellyy99042662]

Been poking around on google. Installed Nvidia's dds thumbnail viewer and an svg extention of which neither one works. Seems a little strange that this only happens with files that would be opened by Adobe products. PDF's, PSD's, DDS's and SVG(Ai) files. I've read where an app called Adobe Reader may be the answer. Are they talking about Adobe Acrobat Reader. Isn't that another charge to be using that in my account? 

[gener7]

No, Acrobat Reader is a free PDF reader

https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/pdf-reader.html   Acrobat DC Pro is the paid version you can ignore for now.

[kellyy99042662]

Great, but I've only come across one issue. When I try to install the free version of Acrobat reader, I'm told that I have to uninstall my older copy of Adobe Acrobat 8. That program works great for my needs. What I need to know is will this new free version of  acrobat reader give me the same ability to scan documents and have a typewriter function that will let me add notes to scanned documents, then save them? I really don't want to uninstall Acrobat 8 only to find out that Acrobat Reader won't do those things for me. 

[gener7]

You can comment but you can't scan with Reader, so forget that. Even then I don't see how it would provide the dds thumbnails you want.

Try https://www.cherubicsoft.com/en/projects/sagethumbs/  It's free and provides thumbnail support for over 160 image formats including PSD and DDS.

[kellyy99042662]

Just curious about this. Sagethumbs does generate a viewable thumbnail, but it doesn't generate a thumbnail that looks anything close to what the document really looks like.  There's nothing from Adobe's end that would be better? I was looking at Adobe reader because I read in a post that it works to generate the correct thumbnails. If this is the best that I can do I can live with it, but it would seem that this only happens with Adobe apps. Ps and Ai are the real culprits.

[gener7]

Bridge 12 is the file manager companion app to Ps/Ai and can generate thumbnails, but not at the Explorer/Finder level. It's free and you can get it from the Creative Cloud app.

https://helpx.adobe.com/bridge/using/whats-new.html

I have never tried it with .dds files, but its strengths is "collections" where different files types can be gathered for a project.

[innovative_adventurer5D56]

this will help

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaHO5P6u68c