I found a nice surprise in my Inbox this morning.  I went into an e-mail message that contained an Adobe Acrobat PDF file and clicked on the file to preview it like I normally would.  However, I happened to notice that it didn’t say Foxit PDF Preview Handler above the preview window anymore.  I wondered if Adobe had finally included an Outlook 2007 PDF Preview Handler in one of their recent software updates.  I did a little more research and found out that with the release of Adobe Acrobat/Reader 8.1 they did include a PDF Preview Handler for Outlook 2007.  Adobe’s version of the preview handler doesn’t seem to have as many features as the Foxit preview handler but it is still pretty decent.

More information on the Adobe 8.1 update:

• PDF Preview for Outlook 2007 via Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1 Update
• PDF Preview Handler included with Adobe Acrobat 8.1
• New features and issues addressed in the Acrobat 8.1 Update - Adobe TechNote KB401730

Download Links:

• Adobe Reader 8.1 Download
• Adobe Acrobat 8.1 Professional/Standard Update