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Illustrator thumbs don't work anymore

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With RC1 the thumbnails of Adobe Illustrator-files won't show, they're just program icons. Anyone else encountered this?

Yes, I have GhostScript and it works fine in all versions before RC1.

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Re: RC1: Illustrator thumbs don't work anymore

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Troken wrote:With RC1 the thumbnails of Adobe Illustrator-files won't show, they're just program icons. Anyone else encountered this?

Yes, I have GhostScript and it works fine in all versions before RC1.
And the load works?
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xnview wrote:And the load works?
The load? Since I don't know what load you mean I made following tests:

pressing F3 - loading file in editor works fine.
singlelclick - preview only shows hex-code or what it is, no image.
doubelclick - the statusbar at the lower end loads to max but then nothing more happens.
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Re: RC1: Illustrator thumbs don't work anymore

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Troken wrote:
xnview wrote:And the load works?
The load? Since I don't know what load you mean I made following tests:

pressing F3 - loading file in editor works fine.
singlelclick - preview only shows hex-code or what it is, no image.
doubelclick - the statusbar at the lower end loads to max but then nothing more happens.
Ok, could you send me a sample, please?
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Same for…

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—> Troken

:) Hello !

• Please, give a glance HERE, the tumb nails follow exactly the images, I tested too …

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Re: RC1: Illustrator thumbs don't work anymore

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xnview wrote:Ok, could you send me a sample, please?
Filesample? No purpose I think, it doesn't work with ANY of my .ai-files, and it've always worked before, since I started with XnView in version 1.82.something. I would just send you perfectly fine files.

-> Clo, they don't work for you either?

EDIT: Tested the files from the other Illustrator-thread and "test_v8.ai" works fine :? Not the other two though.
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Clo wrote:• Please, give a glance HERE, the tumb nails follow exactly the images, I tested too …
Good that you have made the link between the two related or even similar topics, Clo.
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Hi, I am totally new to XnView Software -- I downloaded it today, so that I can view Affinity Photo thumbs which do not show in Adobe Bridge. The Affinity thumbs can be successfully viewed, however now I cannot preview AI file thumbs, I only see the AI program icons. I know this has been discussed before but that was in 2007, so I am hoping I have just missed the solution somewhere in the thread. Sorry if my question is redundant... I am not really so thrilled about having to download some third-party app to make it work, I am hoping it's just a setting I need to turn on in XnView. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.
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Do you have Ghostscript installed?
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Hi, no I don't. Is it necessary to download it in order to view the AI thumbs?
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AndreaK wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2020 8:08 pm Hi, no I don't. Is it necessary to download it in order to view the AI thumbs?
As the Wiki link says, Ghostscript is necessary to view AI images, so I presume also thumbs...

There may be another issue after you have confirmed that you can view full AI images, concerned with the setting required to determine which thumbs are displayed by default in the browser, I can't help you with that... :(
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Thanks. I think I will use XnView for Affinity files, and when it comes to AI files -- I will stick with Bridge.
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AndreaK wrote: Thu Jul 30, 2020 4:54 pm Thanks. I think I will use XnView for Affinity files, and when it comes to AI files -- I will stick with Bridge.
The setting I referred to above now I've found it is:

Tools > Settings > Browser > File list -- Custom filter

With Ghostscript installed according to the wiki instructions, for AI/PS/PDF files both images and thumbnails should be displayed with the default settings.
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