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Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) has somehow established itself as the standard way to share documents. The reader software is free and there are many ways to create free PDFs from other document formats through virtual printer drivers. Unfortunately Adobe developers or management weren't very keen on robust code and as a result their windows shell integration support has little to be admired. Instead of fixing the faults and shortcomings (e.g. poor 64 bit support), things got even worse with the latest Adobe X reader release. So whereas the past version 9.4 had basic support for all shell aspects (filters for text extraction, thumbnail and preview handlers), version X dropped support for text searches and ActiveX PDF embedding. We will never know whatever posessed Adobe to drop half of the PDF shell support in their latest version 10 (X) or whether they will improve in some future version. If you use PDFs a lot for your work, here are some immediate solutions: (in preferred order)
What else can go wrong? If you cannot see PDF thumbnails in draft preview or in thumbnail view mode make sure your thumbnail extraction byte file size limit is large enough to cover the PDF files you use (this setting is controlled from Tools > Options menu, General page). Note that only the professional xplorer˛ will search within PDF and other office document formats, not the free lite version.
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