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Tim - Does this wikidefinition work? I'm not sure: Are you just as shocked by that, Scott? Let's hear your outrage! I should also point out that Vista doesn't even ship with an XPS previewer, so Microsoft is just as guilty as Adobe in that respect.

And Reader 8 has GPU support so the actual PDF reading experience is quite a bit faster on modern Vista machines. Foxit is still faster, but not that much faster. In the meantime, I think its great that Tim Heuer has done this, but there is a big difference between releasing an unsupported, hackish utility and releasing a supported product that gets used by literally millions of people.ДЄs for speed, Reader 8 starts a heck of a lot faster than earlier versions. We do have a Vista compatible dot release in the works. This is because Vista ended up slipping out past the Reader/Acrobat 8 ship deadline and we didn't want to take the leap of faith to support Vista when it wasn't finished and we didn't want to delay our ship date until after Microsoft shipped. For that matter, Acrobat and Reader don't even officially support Vista yet. Can we get a little professional courtesy here?ДЄs far as previewers go, you're right we (Adobe) don't have one yet. If you have the expertise and can write the unmanaged COM code, give him a shout. I have some stuff researchedвЂ¦but anyone interested in providing that host is appreciated. 'So, the next step for this project for me is to create the managed COM host for this code-base. Let's all go over and crush Tim's blog with comments of encouragement. Last year Tim wrote a Code Preview HandlerВ (not sure if this works in XP?) so I guess I'll be collecting the best of these, methinks! In XP, this doesnвЂ™t exist and the preview must be handled by a COM surrogate.' In Vista, the preview handler is provided through a managed preview surrogate (you can see it running when you do a preview) called prevhost.exe. 'The problem with XP is that the preview handler model is slightly different. WARNING: The PDF Previewer only works on Vista right now.

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Now, Tim has combined the Foxit ActiveX SDKВ and an MSDN sample on how to create an Office Preview HandlerВ and just called Foxit up. It's true that Foxit has crashed on larger PDFs and there's some quirky rendering sometimes, but I currently still prefer it for 'casual PDF'ing.' As for Adobe the company, I love PhotoShop, so I'm not impugning the whole building.

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Update for clarity - I'm complaining about how slow AcrobatВ 7 is, especially with regard to all it's plugins that it starts up during the splash screen.

#Set up pdf preview for outlook 2007 software#

Well, of course you know I love Foxit SoftwareВ because their tiny and glorious little PDF Reader (and PDF Creator) software keeps my computer moving fast and Adobe-(Reader) free. It would have been a compelling enough reason to actually put the crapware software on my system.

I'm shocked that Adobe didn't get their act together in time and release one at the time of the launch. Tim Heuer gives to the communityВ and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.Д®veryone's been waiting ((and waiting)В and waiting) for a PDF Previewer for Outlook 2007.