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When I select a pdf file, the preview pane shows a mess of garbled ASCII text rather than a render of the pdf file. Does anyone know how I can get it to display pdfs properly? It used to work but stopped working once I reinstalled XYplorer.

Thanks!

When you type in the address bar and hit enter
afterwards, does the preview work
in that new XYplorer instance?

Preview pane says: "Cannot Preview." .....(!!)

Show the output of this little script (you can paste it into the address bar and hit enter afterwards):

it's blank....

(thanks for taking the time to reply, btw - really appreciate it)

You don't have a 32-bit preview handler installed...

To solve this, use e.g. this:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=15910

Thanks so much for that. Followed the instructions but doesn't seem to work still.... I'll try again.

Your text get("PreviewHandler", "pdf"); Script outputs the following:


GUID: {CF822AB4-6DB5-4FDA-BC28-E61DF36D2583}
DefaultName: PDF-XChange PDF Preview Provider
DisplayName: PDF-XChange PDF Preview Provider

And you are sure you don't have an entry like in ANY other category (e.g. "Text Files") than
"Office Files" (the only place where it belongs!)
under: Configuration - Preview - Previewed Formats?

Additionally, you're using a 64-bit OS, right?

I had the exact same problem. This may sound strange, but if you have an entry for pdf files under the 'text' format or 'image' formats in Tools | Configuration |Previewed Formats, instead of simply unchecking those entries, delete the entries such that the only entry you have have pdf files is under Office Files. Save and restart and check that preview pane works properly. If that works for you too, possibly that's a sign of a bug.

@highend, I do have such an entry. And yes, I am using a 64bit OS

@klownboy, cool. Will definitely try that!

OMG that worked.

On hindsight, it's pretty obvious, but not without first knowing how the file assocations work.
It turns out that pdf appeared under both the text files and office files "previewed formats".
I thought the bottom half of that menu setting page was the same for all formats (in fact, i stupidly didn't think that the top and bottom lists were linked).
But now that i deleted pdf from the text files "previewed formats", it works. So XYPlorer was treating pdfs as a text file and chucking out ASCII characters.

Thanks so much for your help, guys.

julietgolf wrote:It turns out that pdf appeared under both the text files and office files "previewed formats".
I thought the bottom half of that menu setting page was the same for all formats (in fact, i stupidly didn't think that the top and bottom lists were linked).

You are not the first. I really need to rethink this interface...

Don the initial problem reported in this thread was not having pdf files to display properly in preview pane even though they display fine in Floating and Full Screen previews. I had this problem as well as julietgolf. In addition to the interface issue, I think a major issue is: un-checking the 'pdf' extension in Text file category in itself did not 'fix' the problem. I had to go one step further and actually delete the 'pdf' file entry in the text file category to correct the problem and have pdf files display properly in a Preview Pane. To me that doesn't seem right. Shouldn't unchecking the pdf files in the text category alone be sufficient? Thanks.

You are right, something is wrong here.