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Safe and easy PDF preview in Outlook 2007

by Steve Wiseman on January 5, 2009 · 2 comments

in ADOBE,FOXIT,PDF


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I hope everyone had a great Christmas, and New Year. I sure did – The power was out at my house and the office between both holidays. Almost a week without power. I am now very familiar with electricians, transfer switches, and generators. Still it did not get us down – we still enjoyed the holidays in the dark, and got to re-discover board games with the kids.

When I got my computer powered back up, I had an email from a friend that told me about a cool plugin for Office 2007. It uses the free FoxIt PDF viewer. Using this to preview PDFs has many benefits. First it is free. That is always a great thing. FoxIt has developed a PDF viewer from scratch, so it is immune from many of the security problems that plague the Adobe PDF viewer.

There are two different versions for XP, and Vista – so if you want to download right away, here are the links:

Windows Vista Version

Windows XP Version

The install is simple. Make sure you have Outlook closed, and run the setup file. After you install it, launch outlook and find an email with a PDF

Outlook PDF Preview

See my pointer? That is where you want to click, then a new panel will be displayed:

PDF Preview Warning

Click on the preview file, and you can read your PDF right in Outlook:

PDF Preview

This is a great alternative to the Adobe. It is free, and you reduce the PDF security threat to a much lower level.

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    { 2 comments… read them below or add one }

    1 Rene January 7, 2010 at 7:47 pm

    Thanks lots IntelliAdmin!

    I was looking for this after my last reload. 🙂

    Sincerely,
    René

    PS. I have no affiliation with InttelliAdmin

    2 Mike C. November 15, 2013 at 2:05 pm

    Thank You!
    This is an easy and simple fix.
    Too much crap on the internet.
    Its great to find someone that keeps it simple!
    MC

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