Posted by: kurtsh | March 8, 2010

FIX: Acrobat Thumbnail Preview Handler on Windows 64-bit OS’s

image (courtesy of Paul Thurrott)
If you have a Windows 64-bit OS, have you ever noticed that:

  • the icons for your PDF documents don’t display thumbnails of the actual document like Office document types? 
  • the preview handler doesn’t display previews of Acrobat documents correctly?

Adobe has a bug in the installer for 64-bit Windows that prevents the thumbnails/previews from displaying correctly.  The problem’s been around for more than 2 years and Adobe’s never fixed the issue.

Here’s the fixes for these issues:
http://pretentiousname.com/adobe_pdf_x64_fix/index.html

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