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Wednesday 9 September 2009

Adobe PDF preview handler x64 fix

Adobe Reader comes with a preview handler that allows things like Windows Explorer, Outlook and Directory Opus to view PDF files.

(Opus can also use the full Adobe Reader but the preview handler is more lightweight and works better on machines with IE8/Windows 7.)

There's a mistake in Adobe's installer which means the PDF preview handler has never worked on x64 (64-bit) versions of Windows.

Today I discovered that you can fix the problem via a very simple registry change:

http://www.pretentiousname.com/adobe_pdf_x64_fix/index.html

A workaround for the problem has also been built into my Directory Opus ActiveX viewer plugin.

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