Preview pdf file

Hello everyone I no longer have an overview of the pdf files where it can come from ?? (:

Is your choice of PDF viewer working in File Explorer's viewer pane?

If it's not working there either, you probably just need to reinstall the viewer. (e.g. Adobe Reader.)

Hello Leo
No in the viewer it does not work.
Reinstaler Foxit reader the software works well but in the opus pane no visualization just the foxit phantom icon
:frowning:

Is it working in File Explorer?

no more

You'll need to ask Foxit for help, if reinstalling Foxit wasn't enough and it isn't working in File Explorer either.

Only they can tell you why their viewer might not be working.

Or, alternatively, try a different PDF viewer. But it should be possible to repair Foxit if it was working before and you ask them for help.

thank you
I will change my viewer
thank you again for being so quick

Leo
I have recovered another is his walk
Thanks for your advice
:slight_smile: :slight_smile:

Hello all,

since this problem has been popping up repeatedly for almost decades, which has also (I believe involuntarily:) made Leo one of the leading specialists regarding debugging and fixing PDF preview issues, I would like to add my recent findings here, just in case they might be useful for any further investigation of PDF preview related issues.

For me, PDF preview in Outlook and also in Windows Explorer had suddenly stopped working, both with Adobe and with PDF-XChange. In Dopus, however, the PDF preview had continued to work without problem, both with Adobe and PDF-XChange.

Then out of desperation because of the broken Outlook PDF preview, I installed Foxit Reader: and voila, PDF preview in Outlook worked again. PDF preview in Outlook with Adobe Reader or PDF-XChange Editor continued to be broken.

Interestingly, PDF preview with Foxit also only works when "Foxit PDF Preview Host" is selected, but not when "Foxit PDF Preview Handler" is selected:


(PDF-XChange Shell Extensions Setup Utility)

Maybe this information will help someone to get closer to the root of future PDF preview problems.

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That might be because we have some hardcoded fallbacks in Opus which look for popular PDF viewers if one isn't found the normal way through the registry. The registry data is damaged so often by all the PDF software fighting over it that we added those to help.

(It's still not good to depend on this, since it can be slower, and it won't solve all situations where the registry is mis-configured. It's more for filling in missing data than correcting bad data, if that makes sense.)

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The Tracker Support Team has just come up with a piece of information on this that was completely new to me:

Re: Explorer crashes with enabled preview of PDF-documents

Maybe this is the reason why such difficulties with the preview handlers keep occurring over and over?