Extracting preview jpeg...

Hi...first post here...I'm wondering if there is any way to extract the preview jpeg created at import...this is a very useful feature in Aperture when working with offline images (allows you to still send email etc. of images not in the computer, but in the catalog) not to mention it can save your butt if you ever lose a drive...any help is much appreciated...

This has been covered in detail in a few other threads. Do a forum search for printing with draft mode 1:1 previewss and you shoulld find more on this.
Don
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Dear Folks,
I'm new to converting raws to DNGs, and I can't seem to find any use for the preview JPEGs that DNG converter can embed in the file.
Mac OSX (10.4.11) doesn't display them in Finder windows (Icon view mode). Get Info windows can show me a small preview whether or not I embed a JPEG. Mac OSX's Preview program can't display DNG files whether or not JPEGs are embedded in them. I don't see any difference in the functionality of Bridge and Photoshop whether they're there or not.
That pretty well describes my entire photo workflow, so if previews really are irrelevant to it, seems to me I might as well leave them out and save a little processing time and disk space.
Am I missing something obvious? (probably)
Thanks!
Ctein

Dear David (and Ramon),
Nope, no such implication whatsoever. I entirely understand the theoretical benefit. I've just been trying to find out if they'll benefit me.
BUT... here's an unexpected curiosity. I just ported one of my freshly-baked DNG file to a friend's brand new Mac, so it's running the latest versions of everything and it ought to be pretty much a stock configuration.
It can't read my DNG preview JPEG, either! When I drag the DNG file into the Preview app, it shows me a question mark, not a preview! I just double-checked, and I am generating the DNGs using the default settings in Adobe DNG Converter (medium JPEG, lossless compression, non-linear, no embedded RAW, etc.)
So, what's going on?! Ramon confirms that DNG previews should be viewable under Mac OSX. Either I'm doing something wrong (entirely likely) or there's something broken in A-DNG-C.
The DNG files I'm generating look perfectly fine in Adobe Bridge/ACR/Photoshop, by the way. It's something hinky with the JPEGs.
Anybody got a clue? I'm fresh out!
pax / puzzled Ctein

What is the use of preview JPEG embedded in DNG?

I tried converting a CR2 file to DNG, choosing different size JPEG preview, including full, medium and none. The converted DNG file all look the same when I open them in LR3. So the image we see in the library and develop module is not the JPEG embedded in DNG??? What is the JPEG preview used for then?

I never was able to see any preview in Windows 7, whether I use Canon's CR2 or DNG.
You need WIC codecs for the given format. If you have the codecs installed Vista/Win7 will be able to display thumbnails in Explorer and previews in the built-in preview apps. As far as I know there are free codecs available from manufacturers for most raw formats (Nikon, Canon, DNG), but most (all?) are 32-bit only. There's a commercial third-party 64-bit DNG codec available.
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Hello,
I don't know if this is a bug or not. But when I'm pasting
images from Photoshop to DW. I get the Image Preview dialog as
usual. But any image I want to preview as a JPEG is not previewing.
The preview is blank. I can change the settings and it will insert
the image. I can change the settings to a GIF or PNG and it
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Hello,
I don't know if this is a bug or not. But when I'm pasting
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Alan,
I'm not previewing the image in a browser. Maybe I'm not
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