Icons are not displayed for Adobe PDF documents

Icons are not displayed for Adobe PDF documents

Last Wednesday one of the SharePoint users asked me that he is able to see icons for the Ms Word, Excel, and PowerPoint but not for the PDF document.

Yes, to my surprise it does not show this out of box, why? I guess because this is an adobe product and not Microsoft. But yes we can easily show the icon for the PDF file.

So I decided to put this on my blog.

• When we upload a PDF document this is how it looks in the document Library (The same way it will appear in search results).

 

•  Now to change this to a PDF icon. First download a PDF icon on size(16x16 Pixels, not mandatory but this will fit the size perfectly) You can choose your own icon or can take it from here:

•  Copy the image file that you want to use for the icon to the following folder on the server, as appropriate for your version of SharePoint:
  
  SharePoint Server 2007- Drive: \Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\Template\Image
  SharePoint Server 2010 - Drive: \Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\14\Template\Images
• Start Notepad, and then open the Docicon.xml file (Open the Notepad with Run as administrator permission). The Docicon.xml file is located in one of the following folders on the server:
  
  SharePoint Server 2007- Drive: \Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\12\Template\Xml
  SharePoint Server 2010- Drive: \Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\14\Template\Xml
•    Add an entry for the .pdf extension.
  

 

As example above a new Mapping line has been added to the file. The value attribute above should be the PDF icon you copied in the images folder.

• Now do an IISReset.
  
  
  
   And yes Hurray. The PDF icon is appearing………………………