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.
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…
