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Thumbnail View Missing

Artimishie
Registered: Jun 7 2007
Posts: 8

With Acrobat Professional 8... is there a setting to get the thumbnail view back in Windows?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8, Windows
Dimitri
Expert
Registered: Nov 1 2005
Posts: 1389
Hi Artimishie,

Thumbnails of pages in a PDF open in Acrobat can be viewed by clicking on the Pages panel, found on the left side of the Acrobat application window.

Hope that helps,

Dimitri
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Artimishie
Registered: Jun 7 2007
Posts: 8
My bad. Thumbnail view missing in Windows Explorer.

We do many graphics and save as a pdf. We use to get a thumbnail view of the pdf in Windows Explorer of the graphic. That has gone away with V8.

Looking to get those back.

Artimishie
Recidivist
Registered: Jul 30 2007
Posts: 1
You can just use the page view, which is pretty similar, although it doesn't dock in the same way the thumbnail view did. Just go to view/navigation panels/pages
docphiliowa
Registered: Jan 2 2008
Posts: 8
I have the same problem - but have not yet found a solution. I do not see a thumbnail view of the pdf documents when in Windows Explorer.
Tramble
Registered: Mar 16 2008
Posts: 11
Same issue on Mac with Acrobat 6 Pro. Click on the <> tab reveals nothing. I reloaded the application from the original disk and no change. I don't know when it stopped working however I've tried everything to access the thumbnails to no avail. Checked the Preferences, nothing there. Please advise.
lkassuba
ExpertTeam
Registered: Jun 28 2007
Posts: 3636
docphiliowa wrote:
I have the same problem - but have not yet found a solution. I do not see a thumbnail view of the pdf documents when in Windows Explorer.
The pdfshell.dll file controls the thumbnail view in Windows -- perhaps this dll file is not registered correctly. Sometimes running the "Repair Acrobat installation" command under the Help menu can address this.

Lori Kassuba is an AUC Expert and Community Manager for AcrobatUsers.com.

psmullen
Registered: Apr 16 2010
Posts: 1
I cannot get Navigation panel to display pages icon and it's a pain to go though the menus. Allo of a sudden it dropped off. any help on that?
Thanks
Tramble
Registered: Mar 16 2008
Posts: 11
Trashing the acrobat preference file worked for me. Able to access pages with no problem. :)
kulart
Registered: Aug 19 2010
Posts: 4
No "pages" icon shows up on the left in my iMac's Acrobat Pro v.9, only layers and bookmark icons.
How do I restore this very, very handy feature?
Thanks.
Tramble
Registered: Mar 16 2008
Posts: 11
To Kulart, Close out the app. Trash the Acrobat preference file. Relaunch Acrobat. The file should reappear.
kulart
Registered: Aug 19 2010
Posts: 4
Thanks, Tramble, I deleted the "com.adobe.Acrobat.Pro_x86_9.0.plist" and that one did the trick! Two other ".plist" for acrobat pro didn't change anything.
h4nn1
Registered: Aug 25 2010
Posts: 1
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nebler
Registered: Jan 24 2011
Posts: 1
Displaying thumbnail view (page icon view) in Navigation Panel (Acrobat 9 Pro):
Select "Pages" panel in Navigation Panels by icon or under View->Navigation Panels. If "Pages" panel is not visible on Navigation Panels, right click the column of space of the icons (or View->Navigation Panels) and select "Reset Panels." Pages panel will default to display at the top of the panel icons in the Navigation Panels.