Then, if you look, you’ll find it in three places. One partial way to avoid Adobe from updating Acrobat is to delete or rename the files with armsvc -with hidden files being visible. The associated file to the update has an armsvc in it. Sorry if this is obvious, You can see Acrobat update in windows services. Again, make sure you rename the original file so that you can get it back. So sorry, but it’s been a while but if and when you get this right, the thumbnails show up. At any rate, after trying this and that, I tried replacing key files from the old version to the main acrobat DC folder. I’m having trouble remembering exactly how I did this but you can avoid trouble by rewriting the extension of the original file (e.g., change the existing file acrobat.exe to acrobatOriginalexe)Īnd to do this you need to have a copy of an old version of Acrobat Pro DC as well – perhaps from backup. (Nothing you all described).Įventually though I did find a workaround. I’ve tried on my own to try to fix the registry to see thumbnails, which messed it up. Thanks for sharing! And to everyone else. In short, if you want PDF thumbnail previews, do NOT upgrade to Reader DC, because it removes thumbnails entirely… □ We know there are users who value it but certain design considerations forced us to make this change. We had to remove the thumbnail preview functionality from Acrobat and Reader DC for technical reasons. UPDATE: I just installed Acrobat Reader DC. So, install the latest Acrobat Reader XI, install the fix above, and rock and roll! In addition, Microsoft’s very own built-in PDF viewer apparently is not capable of generating PDF thumbnails. One final note: While Windows 8 does have a built-in PDF viewer, it is very basic. I guess they are just too busy releasing incremental improvements to their Creative Suite software, and charging an arm and a leg for each “major” new release. Of course, this raises a rather burning question: What the hell is wrong with Adobe that even after all these years, and with all these 64-bit Windows installs out there, they still haven’t fixed the thumbnail problem?! I have tried it on Windows 7 圆4 and Windows 8 圆4, and it works like a charm on both. Note that on the web page linked above, this fix is rather old. It just makes it so that 64-bit Windows can use the 32-bit thumbnail generation included in Acrobat Reader. It actually fixes both Preview Pane viewing of PDFs, and thumbnail generation. This little program is very simple to install: you just run it, and let it do its thing. You can also check out the web page where I found this PDF thumbnail fix. If that link doesn’t work, try this one: Adobe Reader 圆4 Fixes v3 In any case, you will find many solutions to this thumbnail problem, but this is the one that works: Adobe Reader 圆4 Fixes v3 I don’t have Acrobat Pro XI, so I can’t tell you anything about that one. Even installing Acrobat X Pro didn’t give me proper PDF thumbnails. It seems that the problem is that Adobe simply doesn’t care about PDF thumbnails on 64-bit machines. About time!Īs for the thumbnail previews, they still didn’t work after upgrading to Reader XI. After installing the latest Acrobat Reader, it seems the contents of all my PDF files are now indexed, and therefore searchable. Instead, the indexing problems seems to have magically resolved itself by upgrading to the recently released Acrobat Reader XI. In Windows 8, however, I found that installing it made absolutely no difference for either the indexing or the thumbnail problem. In Windows 7 圆4, this was necessary in order to be able to search the contents of PDF files. Displaying the first-page thumbnail preview on all PDF filesįor #1, there is always the classic option of installing the Adobe PDF iFilter 11.0.01 for 64-bit Platforms.Indexing the contents of PDF files so that they are searchable by Windows Search.There are actually 2 issues here to pay attention to: Well, after trying a million things, here’s what worked for me in both 64-bit Windows 7 and Windows 8… So, you search Google, and you find a bunch of tricks, fixes, and paid software that doesn’t work. You expect that on your desktop and in Explorer, you will see a thumbnail preview image of the first page of each PDF document. You have the 64-bit flavor of Windows 7 or Windows 8. NOTE: If you like PDF thumbnails, DO NOT install Acrobat Reader DC! See note at the end…
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