UPDATE: How to View Adobe Illustrator AI Thumbnails in Windows XP Explorer
This post has now been updated . . . . . .SEE BELOW
A short while ago, I spoke about two methods of displaying a small image of the file as a thumbnail, when viewing Adobe Photoshop PSD and adobe Illustrator AI files in Windows Explorer.
Each post can be seen here:
Adobe Photoshop PSD as Thumbnails
Adobe Illustrator AI as Thumbnails
UPDATE:
Both those methods involved downloading files, pasting them in a newly created folder, and changing the registry.
Now you can update both PSD and AI files quickly with one click.
All that is required is to download this software and click on the program to run it . . . . . Only takes a second and is as simple as that.
Download – Click Here
As before, as long as you have Thumbnails selected for that folder, Adobe Photoshop PSD and Adobe Illustrator AI icon, will now be displayed as a small Thumbnail instaed of the standard Icon.
Unfortunately, I still havent worked out a way to automatically prevent Illustrator removing the thumbnails the next time it loads, but the tried and tested manual fix is here if you are OK with editing the registry, and you only need to do this once.
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Austin on
Wed, 5th May 2010 8:57 PM
RE: http://lee-jones.com/blog/update-view-psd-ai-thumbnails-windows-explorer/
I have run the routine described on this website on my PC running XP Pro SP3. I was hoping it would allow me to view thumbnails of AI files located on a CD in Widows Explorer before opening them in Corel Draw X4. Unfortunately I am still not able to view them as thumbnails. I do not have any Adobe products installed other than Acrobat Viewer and Dreamweaver. Please let me know if you know of another method to view AI Thumbnails.
Should work regardless of what software you have installed
Things to check
Make sure that you have Thumbnails selected for that folder
Make sure they do have a windows .ai extension, (if saved from a MAC they won’t)
Try dragging a file into a folder on your PC and recheck the above.
If it is a very old AI file, the thumbnail will not be displayed
They are the only reasons it cannot work !
[...] CLICK HERE FOR UPDATE TO THIS POST [...]
You can change security settings for any registry keys, so you can set the mentioned key read-only, and there is no need to manually add it each time Illustrator was run.
Lee,
Been looking everywhere for a follow-up with WINDOWS 7….
Specifically if ANYONE know of a way to view Adobe Illustrator AI thumbnails in WINDOWS 7 PRO EXPLORER (64bit) and not XP???
Been using this method for about 3 years on XP Pro system, and now that I’ve updated my system to Win 7 I’m completely stumped.
Everything on the web points to this clever method, which unfortunately does NOT work in Win 7. Any help appreciated. Thanks.
AUSTIN – Sorry i cannot help you !
I’m sure i could find a way to do it on 7, but i don’t have it, and unless someone want to buy it for me, i really cannot see changing over as XP works just fine for everything i need.
Lee
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