View Illustrator File in Document List

How do I view an Illustrator document icon? When I am in Illustrator and hit command O I get a list of Illustrator Documents. They have the Illustrator icon but thats all I get. How can I get a small image of the document like I can if its a PDF? I'm sure there is a simple solution to this but I cant find it. Takes too much time to open these files to view. Thanks.

Are you maybe talking about the thumbnail view that we used to get when opening files with Cmd-O? Unfortunately this has been discontinued since OS X came along. Seems they want to force us to use more RAM by having Bridge open as well. Dunno why - the old system was much better.
 As for icons in the Finder, I think it depends on what version of the system you are using. I'm on OS X 10.4.10 and get Illy and Pdf icons, but I have seen thumbnail icons on machines that have a newer version.
 For my part I rather dislike thumbnail icons (which I note that you can turn off on the new system). I prefer to see the format of files rather than their content. And of course you can easily make you own icons - I have done this for different kinds of pdf. It helps a lot when you want to see straight away which files are for newsprint, which for high quality offset and which for viewing only.
 
 
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