I don't see a link to the download

great work....so this does not rely on having Foxit installed?

is it OK to use this at work? Wasn't sure how to understand the license agreement.

Thanks Tim!! A++!

Thanks Tim for the nice add-in!!!

Good job!!!

Hi Tim,

It is a really great. Thanks.

I think it's getting be better if hidden the tool bar like work/excel preview :)

Great! This was a wait, but it's wonderful you took the time to make this. Much appreciated!

Thanks for the great work you have put together!

Great stuff - works like a charm and allows me to view mutiple pdf documents easliy.

Thanks - it works very well

Well worth the wait, installs and works just as expected. Thanks for making the effort Tim.

Thanks a lot Tim, Great Job!
I did a search for this previewer on Google and Adobe did not come up anywhere. How could they possible drop the ball on this? Or do they have one and I just missed it.

Thanks. Just what I have been searching for- print buttons etc are fantastic!

Thanks Tim....
Great JOB....

Thanks a lot!
Been waiting for this since I stumbled upon the Vista version a while back. Just pure luck that I did a search again and that you had made this great effort.
Works very well and I like Foxit a lot more that the bloated Adobe pdf reader.

Thanks for writing the Vista and XP versions of this previewer, I missed the Preview function as I prefer Foxit to Adobe even after Adobe added their version. I wrote a post a year ago on my own blog with a link to a temporary preview add-on by Ryan Gregg, which he pulled after Adobe added official support in 8.1 for previews, and that post is to this day, over a year later, still my most-trafficked post! I've recently updated it to add links to your excellent Foxit previewers so people have a choice; both of my main systems are running Foxit only and no Adobe Reader. I don't miss it! Thanks again.

Thank you!

Thanks very much, works like a charm!!!!

Many Thanks!!!

You add-in is exactly what exists when needed! :)

Thanks a lot.
Works also with Windows 2003.
Keep at it!

Great job. I am using on both XP znd VISTA, but I can't get XP Windows
Explorer to display foxit PDF preview. Any suggestions?

Again, great job.

George

Super Duper, Love it!

Fantastic!!!

Thank you! I've been looking for something like this for a while. It fits the bill perfectly.

Werkt echt perfect!! Veel dank en groeten uit Amsterdam.

i am downloading right now but im not sure if this will do what i want:

could this be used as a preview handler for thumnail views under xp?

if this is just what i need all the foxit users will make a statue on your honor

Nice utility. Thanks very much.

So seksi! Thanks for the great tool! A+

Many thanks for this

I am using an Outlook plugin called "Attachments Processor" that stores email attachments locally and replaces the file attachment with a LNK to the saved file. This help to prevent Inbox overload by scrapping off these attachments so my Exchange administrator isn't telling me that my Inbox is nearing its limit and preventing me from receiving email.

Unfortunately your PDF Previewer does not work with LNK files, however it does work great with attachments that have not been relocated.

Do you think that your handler will be able to use LNK files in the future?

Thanks!

does this also works with winxp and office 2003?

fantastic just want i wanted.

THANK YOU !!

Really appreciate your work

Hi

Great stuff
Thanks for sharing this

This is my first comment to a blog post on the Internet, and I have to say that this XP File Viewer is GREAT! Thank you for building it.

its great... thanks a lot

Nice work. Love it!

I downloaded the latest PDF previewer hanler and installed on Winodws XP SP3/Office 2007 SP1/Foxit PDF 2.3(Build2923), when I preview it,problem is that it still can't be preview in the outlook frame and error comes in attachment.

Sample code doesn't work, registry code is commented out, so you will have to figure that out and write your own values, Libraries are missing for the crappy foxit plugin.. total freaking mess, take it down so you can save someone else much wasted time. As a matter of fact, take this blog down!

Pissed off!

The following keys must be wrote to the registry or nothing happens when you click on the attached file in outlook

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{MyGuid}

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PreviewHandlers]
"{MyGuid}"="COMPreviewHandlerService

And possibly a couple more depending on your needs...

Your installer writes them (probably the 70k downloads you are refering to) but the sample code is commented out, probably because the app doesn't have permission to write these values and throws an exception!!

I realize it is sample code, but it should work!

You are right, and I do appologize!

Just frustrated as I spent many hours tweaking with the code only to not have it work. By the way, there is more wrong than just the registry keys. The code is getting stuck in the loop that listens for the incoming win32 messages... or something to that effect...

I stripped the code down to just the PreviewSurface hosting a text box, wrote the registry values and it still doesn't work correctly..

Gracias,
Senor Feliz.

Is it possible to remove the bar "Foxit PDF Reader - provided by www.foxitsoftware.com" ? When you have a little laptop - it takes too much place :(

For anyone wanting to use the xp code to create a preview handler you will have to do the following to get it to work.

Remove the following lines of code if you plan on coding your own handler and not using the foxit ActiveX sdk.

In ControlPreviewer.Designer.cs remove the following line:

private AxSDK_AXLib.AxFoxitReaderSDK axFoxitReaderSDK1;

Now run the program in Debug mode and remove all the references to the foxit sdk. You will see a list of them in your Error window

Next remove the textbox "textBoxError" from ControlPreviewer.cs and any references to it. There is also another textbox called myPreviewControl which you will also need to remove.

Now you can drag a control onto the ControlPreviewer in design mode, or incorporate your ActiveX control here as well.

There are two methods you need to pay attention to. They both have the same name

public void LoadFile(string fileName, STGM fileMode){}

One is in FormPreviewSurface.cs and the other in ControlPreviewer.cs. This is where the event gets fired and the name of the file getting clicked on gets passed in. You will see what to do here depending on what your handling.

The last and most important step is to write the following registry keys. You can copy and paste the following into a reg file or add them into your installer. You will need to edit a couple places. Do not edit the GUID of the handler unless you change it in the code.

Edit the name of your handler
Edit the path to your handler
Do not edit fee26cbc-56a2-4691-8604-41a19ef13abf

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{fee26cbc-56a2-4691-8604-41a19ef13abf}]
"DisplayName"="The Name of My Handler"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{fee26cbc-56a2-4691-8604-41a19ef13abf}\LocalServer32]
@="C:\\the\\path\\to my\\working folder\\COMPreviewHost.EXE"
"ThreadingModel"="Apartment"


[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PreviewHandlers]
"{fee26cbc-56a2-4691-8604-41a19ef13abf}"="COMPreviewHandlerService"


[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.wav\ShellEx]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.wav\ShellEx\{8895b1c6-b41f-4c1c-a562-0d564250836f}]
@="{fee26cbc-56a2-4691-8604-41a19ef13abf}"

I hope this helps someone and saves them some time!

Of course I forgot something...

You have to change the following extension to what type of file you are handling. In the case below I am handling .wav files. If you were handling flash files for instance, you would change the .wav to .swf

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.wav\ShellEx]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.wav\ShellEx\{8895b1c6-b41f-4c1c-a562-0d564250836f}]
@="{fee26cbc-56a2-4691-8604-41a19ef13abf}"

Love the previewer. We are locked to acrobat viewer 6 on XP with office 2007 on diagnostic laptops with 14inch screens and have just setup receiving pdf job sheets.Is it possible to set it so that by default the LHS bookmarks bar is hidden so we can get a little more width?
Cheers Hoges

Great previewer. How do I uninstall it?
I have no problems with it but I am testing it for work and need to know.
Thanks

GREAT SOFTWARE!! Thanks so much

Thanks a lot, that's precisely what I needed.

thank you so mch! it did solve my problem!!!

God Bless!!!

you did it - gw
thx

I have browsed past this page thinking its too simple and wont work, finally I cracked and tried it, you are a champ Tim, and absolute champ. Thanks a lot

Excelent Work man!!!! thank you very much.


A++ Work!

Great Work.......
really killing add-in.
Lot of time is saved using this tiny add-in
Keep it up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Doesn't work on my WindowsXP MCE 2005. Do I need additional Software besides the Foxit Reader and the installer I downloaded? (I alreday installed .net Version 2)

Don't get any message: Setup runs smoothly and exits afer successfull installation. I just don't see a preview.
Actually it shouldn't be a problem due to the MCE, after all ist just a WindowsXP professional + MediaCenter.
Maybe ist because I use a non-english version of Windows. I tested it in a VM with a WindowsXP profession (german) same result.

Thanx for your help!

You are the most wonderful man in the world at this moment in time!

Thanks

I think I love you.

Thank you for a very good idea it was easy to download and simple to install. Worked like a charm.

Kudos -- Very nice job - -been looking for something like this and was lucky enough to find you.

Excellent.

For people like you, I have a hope for a better tomorrow.
Tnx

Thanks so much, Tim!

I installed Foxit Preview Handler for XP. I can see the Foxit preview handler working in MS Outlook. It turns out that I don't need it because I have Adobe Acrobat 8.1+. When I uninstalled the Foxit Preview Handler, my Adobe PDF Preview Handler stopped working. I tried reinstalling Adobe Acrobat and repairing Microsoft Office and it still doesn't work. Apparently, some keys and values in the Registry where changed by Foxit, and I am unable to revert back to my original Adobe PDF Preview Handler. I tried replicating the registry keys and values using Regmon on a computer that never had Foxit installed, but I was still unable to undo the changes that Foxit did to my registry.

I need to know how to completely reverse the installation of Foxit Preview Handler.

grt job tim.......works wonderful.......i receive a lot of pdf's and this is a GREAT blessing......thank you and to all those who helped you.

god bless

Hi Tim,

Great Job.

Is it possible to smaller or remove the bar "Foxit PDF Reader - provided by www.foxitsoftware.com" ? When you have a little laptop - it takes too much place :(

Having serious problems with Office 2007 Adobe PDF Preview Handler so I used you. Seems to work.

Hihi, well I deinstalled adobe reader 9.1 then I deinstalled Foxit Preview Handler (XP) run office diagnostics reinstalled the addin and now it works again. Thank you for your nice app. Regards knuty

I was so keen to get a PDF previewer I was going to shell out money to upgrade my acrobat 7.1 to acrobat 9! Thanks so much for writing this, works fabulously.

Hi everybody.
I don't know if i'm stupid or what, but i've been trying to install this application on XP for hours, and it doesn't work¡¡¡
I just have to download FoxPDFSrv_1_1.msi???? or I need another aplications???
Can someone upload some screenshots to see the preview working???

Thanks a lot¡¡¡

Finally! Thank you!
Françoise: You just need to double click on FoxPDFSrv_1_1.msi and execute. Be sure all MOffice programs are closed...
Good luck

Adobe and Microsoft, you should wise up!

Hi Tim :

After installer the Foxit PDF preview handler, I can not find anything in the outlook toolbar, I don't know how to use this handler to preview the PDF attachments, can you tell me how to find the help for it.
FYI, I do not installed the Foxit reader, Do I need to install it first ?

Hi Tim:

There is nothing happen or any preview button appear in the body of the message.
I can not see anything different before ansd after I installed the Handler.

Do I need to install Foxit Reader first ? or it can run without Foxit Reader ?
I am now using outlook 2003 (NOT outlook 2007)
I have installed FoxPDFPSrv_1_1.msi (because I am using windows XP)
I also have installed Adobe Acrobat 9.0 (My organization ordered it for us)
Is there anything I should do in the windows registery ?
Should I reinstall the FoxPDFSrv_1_1.msi once again ?

Finally!! THX!!!!!

Worked like a charm, 20 second download, 1 minute install, stop and started outlook, clicked on pdf document link in preview pane, voila! document preview and can print from preview. Love it!

John

Thanks a lot. It works well. Best regards, Michael

Does this work on Outlook 2003? or just 2007?

PerfecT

Great Job

Thanks - very useful.

Sweet.

Hi, Great plugin - thanks.

However - I do have a problem.

When I preview a pdf (Win XP english) and it contains a table (like the bill from a webstore) the table is "black". I see some lines, so I know the table is there, but I don't see the numbers.

Anyone an idea? I can mail an example.

Installation went smoothly, Outlook 2007 tried to preview the PDF, but just said Error in the previewer and it listed Foxit. I did check under trusted and removed the adobe option and made sure foxit was selected. Any suggestions?

Hi! Just what I was looking for! However, when it shows me the preview, it looks all scrambled... any ideas?

Hi,
looks like a very good tool - just what I am looking for. But ... may we use your PDF handler also in my company? That would be great!

Just found this - excellent tool - thanks for your rewarding work!

It's really useful! Thank you!

Adobe Reader 9.x is currently an extremely critical unpatched vulnerability according to Secunia. When viewing an attachment in Outlook using the adobe previewer, one can easily double click the attachment which will of course launch Abode Acrobat and expose the computer system to access. An alternative pdf previewer such as Foxit preview handler for XP is a must have security work around until Adobe Reader can be patched or don't use Adobe Reader at all. Thanks for the great plugin.

thank you - thank you - thank you

you have provided a great application to run on XP, and an even GREATER service to those of us not completely computer savy!

thanks again... my best to you and yours for a happy and healthy holiday and new year!

Now,I found Xp version...Great job.
Thank you very much.
It is really useful.Thanks again..

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thanks Tim,
this is great :)

Hi Tim,

I've downloaded and installed FoxIt Preview Handler for XP. It's not working. I have Outlook 2003 installed. Do I need Outlook 2007?