pdf files are not supported in Sharepoint

Question

how to enable PDF documents and pictures in sharepoint. I have stored a adobe illustrator picture in Sharepoint Picture Library but can see the Preview is there any third party tools or anyway i can have the same property for pdf files as for .jpg,or other image files in sharepoint

Answer 1

The picture preview is available for only certain types of image formats (for example *.jpg, *.jpeg), I recommend this article for further information: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/ha011233351033.aspx

However there is a commercial third party support intended for this purpose "Equilibrium" http://www.equilibrium.com/eq_software/mediarich_for_sharepoint/mediarich_for_sharepoint_at_work/

Incase of PDF's try PDF IFilter 6.0 from Adobe.

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Balaji Baskar

Answer 2

For indexing and searching PDF:

Four steps:

  Add PDF to the list of File Types  (Shared Services, Search Settings, File Types)

  Install a PDF iFilter (Adobe or FoxIt)

  Add the PDF icon (copy to ...\12\TEMPLATE\IMAGES and add to ...\12\TEMPLATE\XML\DOCICON.xml)

  Rerun a full crawl on the content.

For viewing PDFs the user will need Acrobat.  Are you asking about thumbnails for PDF?  FAST search will do that.

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Mike Smith TechTrainingNotes.blogspot.com

Answer 3

thanks for the solution,
Mike yeah actually i am looking for that preview images as we can see for the jpg or any other supportable formats in Picture Library.

 Just the display of icon wouldn't work in my case.
I can search and view the icons of pdf files but incase of pictures from Adoble Illistrator in formats liek(.eps,.ai) I need the actual preview picture of that file.

 That is what i am working on.


As Balaji provided me the link for the solution i guess that one works fine and i am looking on that too