Acrobat X SDK Prerelease Starting Soon

The Acrobat X SDK will be starting soon and we're actively seeking testers. There will be a very brief, 3 week prerelease program starting on January 17th, 2010 and continuing through to February 4th. If you are interested in joining this program, please send an email to [email protected]
Also, don't forget that the Adobe Acrobat Portfolio SDK prerelease version is available on Adobe Labs now.

Acrobat X custom panels are still compatible to Acrobat 8/9.
You can neither use the File Info SDK CS4 nor CS5.
To create a custom panel, please use this package on DevNET.
-- Stefan

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WxWidgets, Mac and Acrobat 9 SDK

We are having a lot of problems in the Mac using wxWidgets whch have now started using as a cross platform replacement to ADM.
On MacOS 10.4 (Tiger):
Having the sample 'wxPlugin' from the Acrobat 9 SDK samples-folder installed in either Acrobat 9 Pro or Acrobat 9 Reader leads to malfunction in some circumstances.
The two issues we experienced are:
1. You cannot open a PDF from the Finder - it just happens nothing (if Acrobat hasn't been running before, it will start though).
2. You cannot shut down MacOS (or restart it) while Acrobat is running (it doesn't matter if there is any document open) - you have to quit Acrobat manually or "Force Quit".
This is due to the wxInitialize call during the plug-in initialization (a reduced plug-in which does nothing works, but adding the single call to wxInitialize() (nothing more) would lead to the issues described above). The following information should help to reproduce the problem:
1. The 'wxPlugin' sample hasn't been touched apart from adjusting the path to the wxWidgets headers and libraries.
2. For wxWidgets, version 2.8.7 and 2.8.8 has been used, both without success.
3. Both wxWidgets libraries have been build with the following configuration: ../configure --disable-unicode --disable-shared --disable-monolithic --enable-universal_binary
There are several other issues with the wxWidgets sample that may or may not be related to the above problems:
1. The wxWidgets message loop is never called (would be part wxEntry function normally):
2. This has more effects (but only for modeless dialogs, since modal dialogs have their own event queue while active):
a) Messages about entering the window aren't processed -> that would result in e.g. the mouse pointer being not changed, not showing up tooltips etc.
b) Idle events are never called
c) Windows are never deleted - so basically all (including the window controls) remain as memory leaks
The last two (b & c) can be solved by registering an AVIdleProc and calling there wxTheApp->ProcessIdle() ,but some messages still aren't properly processed - so modeless dialogs won't work properly.
This can be easily verified by the Acrobat 9 SDK wxPlugin sample - the mouse cursor doesn't change if you have a document open and you see e.g. the Hand, and you move over the Modeless dialog of the sample. The same is true for tooltips (but they aren't applied in the sample code) - only in certain circumstances, when the window has been active - they will work.
In order to get those events working, a call to wxTheApp->MacDoOneEvent() in the idle procedure would help, but that would make other parts of Acrobat irresponsible, so that is no solution - but might be a hint.
Regards
Michael Peters
Mapsoft

I have a plug-in for Reader 10 written using wxWidgets 3.0 under Mac OS X 10.7 and I have all problems
described in OP post. Issue with sockets is added. (when releasing socket object it has deleted twice sometimes)
In this thread Adobe says that a new wxWidges sample will be coming shortly.
The wxPlugin from SDK 11 samples looks like this:
ACCB1 ASBool ACCB2 PluginInit(void)
#ifndef MAC_PLATFORM
/* The following code is not supported on Mac. */
          wxInitialize();
          mainFrame = new AcrobatFrame;
          wxTheApp->SetTopWindow(mainFrame);
          return MyPluginSetmenu();
#else
return true;
#endif
Is that true that wxWidgets officialy not supported in Acrobat SDK?
Is there some approved and tested technique for proper using of wxWidgets with Acrobat SDK for Mac?

Flex Use of the Adobe Acrobat Library SDK

Hello
I have Flex Builder 3 and have been using Director and Flash for ages. Can anybody point me towards any FLEX 3 + AS3 code useage that builds Adobe Acrobat "Academic Library Facilities" e.g. Organiser into a Fully functioning website. I have chased the Adobe Acrobat Library SDK all around the Adobe site and through Google but I am still feeling that I have to work it out for myself.
Help. Laurie THOMAS Director of The Centre for the Study of Human Learning, Oxford U.K.
[email protected]

I checked with the Acrobat team and this is not something that will be trivial I'm guessing. There are no real libraries to support you. The Organizer data is stored in a SQLLite database, which means that if you write an AIR application you could access it, but we don't document the format nor do we guarantee a consistency of format between versions. So I think basically you are going to have to work this out for yourself to meet your own needs, it won't be that generic. Best, Matt On 9/25/08 11:20 AM, "Prof. Laurie THOMAS" <[email protected]> wrote: A new discussion was started by Prof. Laurie THOMAS in Developers -- Flex Use of the Adobe Acrobat Library SDK Hello I have Flex Builder 3 and have been using Director and Flash for ages. Can anybody point me towards any FLEX 3 + AS3 code useage that builds Adobe Acrobat "Academic Library Facilities" e.g. Organiser into a Fully functioning website. I have chased the Adobe Acrobat Library SDK all around the Adobe site and through Google but I am still feeling that I have to work it out for myself. Help. Laurie THOMAS Director of The Centre for the Study of Human Learning, Oxford U.K. [email protected] ________________________________ View/reply at Flex Use of the Adobe Acrobat Library SDK <a href=http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?13@@.59b695bc> Replies by email are OK. Use the unsubscribe <a href=http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?280@@.59b695bc!folder=.3c060fa3> form to cancel your email subscription.

Converting Acrobat 7 SDK -built plug-in to Acrobat 9

We have a plug-in developed inhouse with Acrobat 7 SDK. We are looking for someone with SDK programming experience to help us port it for Acrobat 9. We tried ourselves using Xcode compiler, but it seems that the plug-in is not showing up either as a Menu item nor as a tool icon.
I understand that it may be a very simple problem, which somehow we miss resolving, but since our original programmer is no longer with us, we need some help in porting the tool to Acrobat 9 Pro.
If interested, or have a suggestion, please call me at 216-252 7300 ext. 2684.
Andrzej

NoSmoking,
Thanks for the reply. Since I am not the programmer you may need to just bear with me a bit, if you can.
First, the app is running on OSX (10.3.9 - 10.5.11) - hence the use of XCode as compiler. I checked About Adobe Plug-ins list in 9 Pro which shows loaded plug-ins and our UpdatePage4Layer.acroplugin is not there. Unless there is another way to look at the loaded plug-in list, I cannot find it.
Second, could you explain the check using PluginInit method? There is a section in the project's code which covers PluginInit, but I am not sure how I can use it:
/* PluginInit
** The main initialization routine.
** Return true to continue loading plug-in.
** Return false to cause plug-in loading to stop.
ACCB1 ASBool ACCB2 PluginInit(void)
return MyPluginSetmenu();
I also searched for AVMenuItemNew in the project's code and here is what I found:
// Create our menuitem
menuItem = AVMenuItemNew (MyMenuItemTitle, MyMenuItemName, NULL, true, NO_SHORTCUT, 0, NULL, gExtensionID);
AVMenuItemSetExecuteProc (menuItem, ASCallbackCreateProto(AVExecuteProc, MyPluginCommand), NULL);
AVMenuItemSetComputeEnabledProc (menuItem,
ASCallbackCreateProto(AVComputeEnabledProc, MyPluginIsEnabled), (void *)pdPermEdit);
// get advanced menu
advancedMenu = AVMenubarAcquireMenuByName (menubar, "Advanced");
endToolsGroup1MenuItem = AVMenubarAcquireMenuItemByName(menubar, "endToolsGroup1");
ASInt32 sepIndex = AVMenuGetMenuItemIndex(advancedMenu, endToolsGroup1MenuItem);
// add new menuitem under AcrobatSDK Sub Menu
if(bUnderAcrobatSDKSubMenu) {
// Acquire the common "AcrobatSDK" sub menu.
commonMenu = AVMenubarAcquireMenuByName (menubar, "AMGR:AG_Plugins");
// if "AcrobatSDK" sub menu is not existing, create one under Advanced menu.
if (!commonMenu) {
commonMenu = AVMenuNew ("AG Plugins", "AMGR:AG_Plugins", gExtensionID);
commonMenuItem = AVMenuItemNew ("AG Plugins", "AMGR:AG_Plugins", commonMenu,
false, NO_SHORTCUT, 0, NULL, gExtensionID);
bCreatedCommonMenu = true;
AVMenuAddMenuItem(advancedMenu, commonMenuItem, sepIndex);
// add new menu item to Acrobat SDK sub menu
AVMenuAddMenuItem (commonMenu, menuItem, APPEND_MENUITEM);
// or directly add new menu item under Advanced menu
else {
endToolsGroup1MenuItem = AVMenubarAcquireMenuItemByName(menubar, "endToolsGroup1");
ASInt32 sepIndex = AVMenuGetMenuItemIndex(advancedMenu, endToolsGroup1MenuItem);
AVMenuAddMenuItem(advancedMenu, menuItem, APPEND_MENUITEM);
AVMenuRelease(advancedMenu);
AVMenuItemRelease(endToolsGroup1MenuItem);
AVMenuRelease (commonMenu);
HANDLER
if(endToolsGroup1MenuItem)
AVMenuItemRelease(endToolsGroup1MenuItem);
if (advancedMenu)
AVMenuRelease (advancedMenu);
if (commonMenu)
AVMenuRelease (commonMenu);
return false;
END_HANDLER
Then I found also instructions to get the tool bar button (which BTW did not work in Acrobat 8):
//add button to toolbar
DURING
// Create the main toolbutton. We position it just before the end of the
// tools group of buttons.
toolsSeparator = AVToolBarGetButtonByName(toolBar, ASAtomFromString("endSelectToolsGroup"));
toolButton = AVToolButtonNew (ASAtomFromString("AMGR:UpdatePG4Layer"),GetToolButtonIcon("UpdatePG4Icon","png"), true, false);
// You must set the internal/external nature of the toolbutton
// before adding it to the toolbar. Buttons are internal by default.
// AVToolButtonSetExternal (toolButton, TOOLBUTTON_EXTERNAL);
AVToolBarAddButton (toolBar, toolButton, true, toolsSeparator);
AVToolButtonSetExecuteProc (toolButton,
ASCallbackCreateProto(AVExecuteProc, MyPluginCommand), NULL);
AVToolButtonSetComputeEnabledProc (toolButton,
ASCallbackCreateProto(AVComputeEnabledProc, MyPluginIsEnabled), (void *)pdPermEdit);
AVToolButtonSetHelpText (toolButton, "AG Plugins:UpdatePG4Layer");
HANDLER
return false;
END_HANDLER
return true;
However I do not know where I can find AVMenuItemNew&#12289, or is that expression a combination of separate items?
Thanks again for your help,
A.

Plugin created using C++ 6 and Acrobat 6 SDK Not Working in Windows

I have an Acrobat plugin compiled in Visual C++ 6 using Acrobat 6 SDK. The plugin works flawlessly in Acrobat versions 6 to 9 in Windows XP. While the plugin is able to add a menu iterm and tool bar icon in Windows 7, it causes Acrobat to hang everytime when activated in which event I have to close Acrobat. Since Visual C++ 6 is a 32 bit app, I have to believe that Acrobat 6 SDK is responsible for the behavior described herein in attempting to get the plugin to work in Windows 7. Any comments or suggestions regarding what Visual C++ version to use along with the appropriate Acrobat SDK to get the plugin to work in Windows 7 are appreciated. In doing so, I would also be interested in knowing what backward compatibility one may expect w/regard to previous versions of Acrobat in updating the plugin to work in Windows 7. As for the answer, correct me if I am wrong but I'm thinking Acrobat 9.

Adobe hasn't supported Acrobat 6, VC6 or the Acrobat 6 SDK for at least 5 years. You will need to move to the Acrobat 9 SDK if you wish support.
And Acrobat 9 and its SDK are fine with Windows 7.
From: Adobe Forums <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 01:15:42 -0800
To: Leonard Rosenthol
Subject: Re: Plugin created using C++ 6 and Acrobat 6 SDK Not Working in Windows Plugin created using C++ 6 and Acrobat 6 SDK Not Working in Windows
Plugin created using C++ 6 and Acrobat 6 SDK Not Working in Windows
created by gomfp49<http://forums.adobe.com/people/gomfp49> in Acrobat SDK - View the full discussion<http://forums.adobe.com/message/4056529#4056529

Can't pin Acrobat X Pro to Start menu

My version of Acrobat is 10.1.0, installed in early July. I find that Pin to Start menu is not listed as an option on either the Acrobat X Pro entry or the Acrobat Distiller X entry in the Programs menu.
With my prior version I had Acrobat pinned to the Start menu. It is an available option for other programs including Adobe Photoshop Elements.
The Properties of the Acrobat X Pro entry say Target type = Application, Target location is blank, Target is Acrobat X Pro grayed out, Start in is blank, Shortcut key = None, Run = Normal window, Comment = blank, Find Target and Change Icon are grayed out, the Advanced Properties box says "Choose the advanced properties you want for this shortcut" and both options are grayed out but "Run in separate memory space" is checked.
Added:
I notice that for Elements in the Programs menu, Norton Security is listed in the right-click options, but not for the Acrobat entries.

Dave, since you have been kind enough to try to help, can you tell me how to take advantage of the information that I see above my posting in the Adobe forum? I'm not seing it now as I compose this, but to the right of the dark magenta text that says the question status is still not Answered, there were two icons with notes. One said that there is already 1 correct answer (somewhere in the database I assume) and the other said that there are 2 helpful answers. Neither one of the icons or captions was a live link, so I didn't know what to do with them.
Thanks in advance.

Is it possible to use Acrobat 9 sdk to check accessibility?

Is it possible to use Acrobat 9 sdk to check accessibility of a pdf and get whether the pdf is accessible or not?
I've found InvokeAccessibilityCheckerCmdSnip.cpp that seems to call accessibility validator, but I don't know if that will make what I need.
I've been asked to include an accessibility validation utility in a Content Server after loading a pdf.
Thanks in advance.

Post your question in the 'Acrobat Developers SDK' forum.

How to install or enable Acrobat X SDK for Windows

Ok down that I have downloaded Acrobat X SDK for Windows.
DUUUU How do I install it?? The only setup.exe is located in Visual Studio App Wizard.
I have Professional X.....do I add it from this program some how?
thanks
mike

There is nothing to install as such.
SDK is basically set of public headers , documentation related to them and some samples to demonstrate the usage of these public APIs to write third-party plugins/samples.
You can write your own Acrobat/Reader plugin/App using the SDK.
The setup.exe you found is the plugin-wizard which will install template for Acrobat Plugin on VS9. If you are developing on VS9, it will be useful for you to install this template.
Please refer to the SDK Documentation for the details on how to use the SDK (for writing plugins).

Does Acrobat XI have a compatibility problem with Acrobat 8 SDK?

I have an Acrobat plugin using the Acrobat 8 sdk. Il works well with Acrobat8, 9, and X.
It does not load with acrobat XI. There is a NSException that is reaised.
What in Acrobat XI can cause this behavior?
Thanks!

Changes are that your plugin is either explicitly linking with the ADM technology that we have been telling developers since Acrobat 8 that it was going away. Guess what – it's gone!
So you will need to recompile your plugin, removing all references to ADM and its HFT.

Acrobat X crashes on start in Windows 7 64Bit

Whe i try to start Acrobat X, nothing happens. Acrobat X does not start.
No error message, no splashscreen, no entry in Windows-Logs.
The task is visible in windows taskmanager for very short time, just noticeable.
I have installed CS6 and all other programs are running.
I have installed the update 10.1.3 for acrobat from adobe website.
This error encountered for the first time today.
Since Updateing to CS6 from CS5.5 some weeks ago, everything worked fine.
Thank you for any suggestions,
Klaus Rambow

I have googled a lot and i found some hints to the adobe logfiles in the users temp directory.
I checked them and found some lines pointing to a licence problem.
The solution for me was the following:
- uninstall Acrobat, leave the rest of CS6 untouched
- restart PC
- start Photoshop
- install Acrobat X from CS6-DVD, enter licence-code in setup
- start Photoshop again
- start Acrobat, search for Updates and install them
I am not sure if starting Photoshop does have any effect concerning this problem, be i have read that this worked in another case, so is just did it.
I have wasted so much time on this problem, that these seconds does not matter.
Until now (approx. 8 hours after fixing), everything works fine.
May be this will help some ot the other guys experiencing this weird problem.

Error using Acrobat portfolio SDK with Flash Builder

Hi all
I've been trying to customize a navigator portfolio for Adobe Acrobat X using Flash Builder 4.5. I was running this proyect as Navigator but I received the following Flash Player error:
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at acrobat.navhost.app::SingleNavApp/set productConfig()[C:\dev\A10_1R1_Sandbox\Acrobat\Viewer\AcroView\Portfolio\Flash\Libs\NavHo stUtil\src\acrobat\navhost\app\SingleNavApp.as:333]
at com.adobe.app::AppPrefsBinding/productConfig()[C:\dev\A10_1R1_Sandbox\Acrobat\Viewer\Acro View\Portfolio\Flash\Libs\NavPreviewShared\src\com\adobe\app\AppPrefsBinding.as:93]
at com.adobe.app::AppPrefsBinding/refresh()[C:\dev\A10_1R1_Sandbox\Acrobat\Viewer\AcroView\P ortfolio\Flash\Libs\NavPreviewShared\src\com\adobe\app\AppPrefsBinding.as:76]
at Function/<anonymous>()[E:\dev\4.x\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\binding\utils\Bind ingUtils.as:180]
at mx.binding.utils::ChangeWatcher/wrapHandler()[E:\dev\4.x\frameworks\projects\framework\sr c\mx\binding\utils\ChangeWatcher.as:557]
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
I've installed Acrobat portfolio SDK into Flash Builder and I have followed the documentation of Building a Navigator from http://learning.adobe.com

Ok, finally got this working. Many hidden gotchas.
1. You have to make a Trust File for your custom panel. This is actually in the SDK, around page 53, so my bad -- but the problem is that there is no feedback from the Adobe application if you don't have this. The application just hangs. It should produce an error message "can't find trust file, etc.". This should not be that hard to implement.
2. The latest Flex SDK does not seem to work in Bridge CC or other similar applications. You have to use Flex SDK 3.x, apparently, and this is NOT in the documentation. Not only should you set the default SDK in Flex Builder to 3.x (I'm using 3.6) but you have to edit the build.properties file to make sure it's pointing to the correct folder, eg: C:/Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Flash Builder 4.7 (64 Bit)/sdks/3.6.0. Fortunately Flash Builder 4.7 comes with 3.6 installed. If you have an older version, it's likely to be completely different.
More info in this thread: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1114153.

Install Acrobat Portfolio SDK and plugins in your Flash Builder programming environment

Hello, Experts
how would I go about introducing Acrobat Portfolio SDK and plugins to the Flash Builder programming environment ?
-Alex

https://learn.adobe.com/wiki/display/PDFNAV/Installing+Acrobat+Portfolios+SDK

Is Farsi language supported in Acrobat XI SDK?

Is Farsi language supported in Acrobat XI SDK? After the help I received from Irosenth determining that Khmer language was not fully, supported I will need to know the same for Farsi.
Thanks,
Mike

As I asked with Khmer, supported in what way? There is no shaper for Arabic languages, if that if what you are looking for - you must do that yourself when creating the PDF.

Adobe Acrobat 8 SDK...

My company has currently developed a system for capturing 3D model review comments using a simple 2D screen shot functionality. We would like to integrate 3D PDF viewing capabilities into our application; I therefore have a few questions:
1) Is the use of Adobe Acrobat 8 SDK in our application allowed and also is this royalty free? Is there any cost incurred in using it?
2) Once we have added the SDK to our project are we able to remove all toolbars, and all tabs from being visible. Therefore only showing the 3D viewing window?
3) Are we able to call up the Model Tree control in our application?
4) Are we able to add a comment to a 3D element programmable / using code?
5) Are we able to navigate to a comment using code?
6) Are we able to retrieve the name of the item selected either in the 3D viewer or in the Model Tree control?
I look forward to your response.
Thank you in advance.
Simon Liddicott
Ticodi Ltd.
www.ticodi.com

>1) Is the use of Adobe Acrobat 8 SDK in our application allowed and also is this royalty free? Is there any cost incurred in using it?
The Acrobat SDK is a set of tools for automating Acrobat. The SDK is
free, but of course Acrobat (or perhaps Acrobat 3D) has to be
purchased and deployed for each end user.
Sorry, I don't know the capabilities of the SDK in terms of 3D
processing.
Aandi Inston

Can Acrobat 8 SDK be used under MS VC 2003 enviorment?

I just saw a "Visual Studio App Wizard", i tried to setup them,but it prompted that need vs 2005 be installed.
I have built a project under vs 2003 with Acrobat 7 SDK.
I also built it under vs 2003 with Acrobat 8 SDK.
The project built successfully,but it can not work!
I need to know whether it is vs 2003 reason?
Thanks!
Jasper.

> If my plug in built by vs 2005, can it be used in Acrobat 8?
Well, yes, as I explained above the Acrobat 8 SDK was designed for VS2005.
> so my plug in should be built by vs 2003,vs 2005 and vs 2008?
No. Acrobat 7 was VS2003. Both Acrobat 8 and 9 are VS2005. None of the SDKs require VS2008.

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