PDF Preview Handler from Ryan Gregg
Ryan Gregg has done a nice little hack (and I mean hack as a compliment: the program was small, easy to create, and darn useful) to embed Adobe Reader’s ActiveX control within a Vista/Outlook 2007 Preview Handler. So now you can see what those PDF attachments in Outlook 2007 look like without all that double-clicking. The nice thing about his handler is that it works with Outlook 2007 on XP unlike the FoxIt Preview Handler from Tim Heuer - very handy for me as I prefer to run XP in Parallels. Plus you don’t have to deal with all that FoxIt stuff :-)
I should warn people that the ActiveX control’s UI wasn’t designed to work with small amounts of screen real estate, so those with smallish laptops might want to wait for a better solution to come along…
Comments
i see this hack is favorable ;-)... on a side note it should be pointed out that there has been an adobe activex version for a while (see the referenced msdn article in my post) from stephen toub. this one, does however, work in xp which is great!
Posted by: timheuer | March 25, 2007 03:07 PM
Check Photoshop files(PSD) Preview Handler for Windows Vista here
http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/PhotoshopPreviewHandler.asp
Posted by: Quartz | March 30, 2007 02:18 AM