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date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 19:57:01 -0700,
group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
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Re: Microsoft PhotoDraw / Photoshop / Illustrator Thumbail Preview
Thanks everone for your assistance...I figured it might have been a dll as
well...ugh...oh well.
Yeah PhotoDraw was back in 2000 (1999) but was such a great program, that
tons of people still use it...very simple to use and for quick graphics, it
is on par with Photoshop and Illustrator (considering you don't want to get
too advanced with drawings). Everyone always asks what software I use and
they are shocked it is that old...but it's fantastic. A shame Microsoft got
rid of it despite it's hardcore following :) It's just hard to view all the
images now via thumbnails! haha
"the granter of sina" wrote:
> Frank I have not tried this dll under a 64 bit OS.
>
> Indeed you are right! It wont work. For once, you caught me :-) Good show.
>
> They (adobe) will not add back the thumbnails in windows explorer, they
> dropped that some versions ago, because some claimed
> it made files "unmovable, undeletable" because the dll had access to it.
> They also wanted to promote their own browser application called BRIDGE,
> so what adobe officially says is USE BRIDGE.
>
> I have another solution though, I will look into it and post back for the
> OP. There is a free app that adds thumbnails in explorer for these files but
> I have not tried it since
> I only used the dll in the past.
>
>
>
> "Frank" wrote in message
> news:O#YCySpKJHA.1156@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> > Alan_P wrote:
> >> I've used XP and was able to see a 'preview' of the file image (such as a
> >> picture) of a MS PhotoDraw, Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator drawing. But
> >> since moving to Vista (64bit Home Premium) there is NO preview (to
> >> explain this better, look at a picture thumbail and the same applies to
> >> these).
> >>
> >> Any idea how to 'turn on' previews in thumbnails?
> >
> > Under XP X64 & Vista X64 you will not see preview thumbnails of Adobe's
> > .ai, .psd or .pdf files.
> > Maybe in the upcoming CS4 we will...hopefully.
> >
> > As for MS PhotoDraw...I think I last saw that app what...10 yrs ago?
> > I have no idea about it's thumbnails.
>
>
date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:01:01 -0700
author: Alan_P
Re: Microsoft PhotoDraw / Photoshop / Illustrator Thumbail Preview
Oh I forgot...the only thing I can add is:
- This all worked under Windows XP SP2 (Illustrator 10, Photoshop CS2,
PhotoDraw v2).
- Upon reinstalling the same software on Vista, it doesnt work.
I'm almost curious if Microsoft did this on purpose to force the purchase of
Office 2007 as I understand you can create 'preview' thumbnails in that one
only. Bizzare.
"the granter of sina" wrote:
> Frank I have not tried this dll under a 64 bit OS.
>
> Indeed you are right! It wont work. For once, you caught me :-) Good show.
>
> They (adobe) will not add back the thumbnails in windows explorer, they
> dropped that some versions ago, because some claimed
> it made files "unmovable, undeletable" because the dll had access to it.
> They also wanted to promote their own browser application called BRIDGE,
> so what adobe officially says is USE BRIDGE.
>
> I have another solution though, I will look into it and post back for the
> OP. There is a free app that adds thumbnails in explorer for these files but
> I have not tried it since
> I only used the dll in the past.
>
>
>
> "Frank" wrote in message
> news:O#YCySpKJHA.1156@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> > Alan_P wrote:
> >> I've used XP and was able to see a 'preview' of the file image (such as a
> >> picture) of a MS PhotoDraw, Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator drawing. But
> >> since moving to Vista (64bit Home Premium) there is NO preview (to
> >> explain this better, look at a picture thumbail and the same applies to
> >> these).
> >>
> >> Any idea how to 'turn on' previews in thumbnails?
> >
> > Under XP X64 & Vista X64 you will not see preview thumbnails of Adobe's
> > .ai, .psd or .pdf files.
> > Maybe in the upcoming CS4 we will...hopefully.
> >
> > As for MS PhotoDraw...I think I last saw that app what...10 yrs ago?
> > I have no idea about it's thumbnails.
>
>
date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:31:03 -0700
author: Alan_P
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