Alfred's Serif Users' Forums — No more automatiic PDF preview

Re: No more automatiic PDF preview

null@example.com (GB) — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:36:29 +0000

I'm glad you've got it sorted!

Re: No more automatiic PDF preview

null@example.com (tomH) — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:16:15 +0000

I'm using Wondershare PDF Element. I just updated that, and now it immediately offers to open the PP-PDF, so I guess an old program was the problem.

Re: No more automatiic PDF preview

null@example.com (GB) — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:49:20 +0000

It works OK for me, so I don't have any ideas. Do you have Acrobat, or something else, set as the default for opening PDFs?

Re: No more automatiic PDF preview

null@example.com (tomH) — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:44:26 +0000

Thanks, Geoff. I do have that checked, even reinstalled PP, but no change.

Re: No more automatiic PDF preview

null@example.com (GB) — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:07:18 +0000

Hi Tom.

There's an option on the Publish PDF dialogue to preview the PDF. Do you have this checked?

Geoff

No more automatiic PDF preview

null@example.com (tomH) — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:07:08 +0000

I don't know if this is a problem with PagePlus x9 or my PDF software. Until last week, when I created a PDF from a PagePlus document, the PDF preview would pop up once it was created. That no longer happens, and I have to open the folder to view the PDF. No software has been updated, well, perhaps Win11, but I don't know