How to show thumbnail (Ctrl-Shift-F1) or quick view (Ctrl-Q) of e.g. PDF files?

[MortenZdk]

Hi

When I use Ctrl-Shift-F1 to show thumbnails, it shows for JPG image files but not for PDF files, and similar when Ctrl-Q for quick view, then only the JPG files show, but PDF files are shown as binary/text.

How to make Total commander show preview of PDF files ?

Total Commander used is 9.21a.

Thanks and best regards

[Horst.Epp]

For me the best is the SLister plugin togehter with an actual SumatraPDF installation.
https://totalcmd.net/plugring/slister.html
https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/prerelease.html

[MortenZdk]

Thanks for the comments.

Just tried the SLister, but could not make it work. No change in icon when doing Ctrl-Shift-F1, and just hangs TC when doing Ctrl-Q and select a PDF.

I have also tried ULister (https://totalcmd.net/plugring/oilister.html), with copy of DLLs to plugins directory, but could not make it work either.

/Morten

[HolgerK]

When I use Ctrl-Shift-F1 to show thumbnails, it shows for JPG image files but not for PDF files

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/enable-pdf-thumbnail-preview-windows-explorer.html

Note:

For Acrobat XI and Reader XI, the thumbnails of PDFs are automatically shown in Windows Explorer on Windows 32-bit systems. However, the same is not supported on Windows 64-bit systems.

So this may only work if you use a 32 Bit TC.
with Configurations -> Options...-> Thumbnails:
[x] use Explorer method (OLE) for: [*.* | *.htm *.html]

Or try to activate
[x] Get from Lister-plugin for: [*.*]

Regards
Holger

[MortenZdk]

Thanks for the suggestions.

The https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/enable-pdf-thumbnail-preview-windows-explorer.html setting did not make any change for thumbnails, but also using 64-bit TC, so probably not expected to work.

For Configurations -> Options...-> Thumbnails, then all the thumbnails settings were already set, so no change here either.

[sqa_wizard]

Note: If you run TC as administrator, Acrobat Reader is not accessible from TC because it runs in restricted user mode.