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Preview PDFs in Outlook 2007 with Foxit PDF Preview Handler

By Rick Broida

February 16th, 2009 @ 11:20 am

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Categories: Documents, Software, Time-Savers

Tags: Adobe PDF, Microsoft Outlook, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Rick Broida

Ever wish you could look at a PDF e-mail attachment without having to fire up your PDF viewer? With Foxit PDF Preview Handler, you can view PDFs right inside Outlook 2007, just like looking at the body of an e-mail.

Here’s how it looks:

This add-in is free, but it requires Outlook 2007. There are separate versions for Windows XP and Vista, so make sure you download the right one.

I did — and I’m loving it! Why go to all the memory-hogging trouble of running Adobe Reader when you can view PDFs in Outlook proper? Definitely a worthwhile download. [via Lifehacker]

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    acroboy

    02/17/09 | Report as spam

    RE: Preview PDFs in Outlook 2007 with Foxit PDF Preview Handler

    Contrary to what your post suggests, both Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader have provided the ability to quickly preview PDF files attached to emails directly within Microsoft Outlook 2007 since version 8.1. There is no need to open the PDF files in Acrobat or Reader separately just to preview those attachments.

    Ali Hanyaloglu
    Adobe Systems Inc.

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