Create plugins from Xcode Version5.0.2

Hi,
I'm a newbie for Illustrator plugins and I was refferring to http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/illustrator/pdfs/getting-started-guide.pd f as a start up but the example gived used Xcode 3.1.1. I'm using version 5.0.2 and I found that most the steps cannot be find in newer versions. Where I can find material for beginner to learn. Any advice or referencelinks is highly appreciated.
Thanks

Sorry about that. I removed all our detailed instructions and replaced them with an overview and a link to the XCodeLegacy script, which is much simpler.
To develop plug-ins for Illustrator CC, you will need the OS X 10.7 SDK, which is included with Xcode 4.5-4.6.3, but not Xcode 5.x.
To develop plug-ins for Illustrator CS6, you will need the OS X 10.6 SDK.
To develop plug-ins for Illustrator CS5, you will need the OS X 10.5 SDK.
To develop plug-ins for Illustrator CS3 or CS4, you will need the OS X 10.4 SDK.
All the Xcode modifications are straightforward and are fully automated by this XCodeLegacy sript on github.

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It works perfectly fine when i run the app in simulator , and flash the build in ipad from Xcode .
However ,as soon i create an ipa file , install in ipad it doesnt works . Sometimes , it shows network issue , other times its able to give me the data but as soon i convert the data to JSON objet with NSJSONSerialization class , it returns nill .
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I am trying to create a pdf from a Word document (Word 2007, Acrobat 8 Professional), and am having lots of trouble with images,fonts and document overhead. With the fonts, i generate the PDF by saying Create Pdf from the plugin in Word. I specify in the Preferences that fonts are not to be embedded. I then open the PDF and access PDF Optimiser -> Audit Space Usage, and it says that fonts take up like 20% of the document, however there are only like 10 lines of text in Arial (9pt), and 6 titles also in Arial (Bold). I dont understand why Font is taking up so much space considering that i have elected not to embed fonts (if i go to the Fonts section in the Optimiser, it shows both embedded and unembedded panes blank).
With the images, i have 2 jpegs in the footer, that are compressed (JPEG -> Low). The other thing i am struggling with is the headers and footers, if i generate the PDF from the Word doc with Headers/Footers, then images take up over 15% of the document. Not sure if there is a way to add headers and footers within minimum impact of filesize? I have tried checking everything in the 3 categories of Dicard Objects, Discard User data and Clean Up. but the Document Overhead remains at 35%.
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How are you trying to create the PDF? With AA9 you have to print to the Adobe PDF printer or use the MS plugin.
When you say you cannot create PDFs because of Cambria, what error messages are you getting and copy them here? At this point we really do not know what you are having problems with or how you are trying to create PDFs.
In the future, please provide a topic to help folks that are stepping through all of the posts. A blank topic almost led me to simply skip your post.

Brilliant way to create titles from text files

It was just pointed out to me by a fellow named Greg Hester that there is a way to create titles from a Microsoft Word file using Adobe InDesign. You can create as many titles as you need, and even change text positions around from title to title. Then you export as a PNG.
If you need to go back and change a color or a font type or size or whatever, you can do that to all of them at once and then just export again. They will automatically update in Premiere Pro.
I have never even opened InDesign before, and I was able to follow the instructions in this tutorial without a strain.
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This is very cool. If you subscribe to the Creative Cloud, then you have access to InDesign.

Best would be to have this template/style functionality in the title tool itself though
Agreed.
Remember, all this InDesign thing does is create images that can be used as titles. My Macro created actual titles.
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Safari and Firefox can still use the Java plugin as before.
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Thanks - I will keep the symlink in place and I won't touch the Deploy bundle, because I need the plugin in Safari and I don't need Oracle's Java 7 for now...
If the plugin is supposed to stay in the Deploy bundle, this could help others who miss the plugin - they could just recreate the symlink, right?
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The install log in Console shows that the scripts to create links and to delete obsolete files ran okay, but there was an error with the "postinstall" script. In spite of this the installation succeeded:
Oct 20 16:24:52 michaels-imac Installer[284]: Java für OS X 2012-006 Installation Log
Oct 20 16:25:56 michaels-imac _securityagent[305]: Running Install Scripts . . .
Oct 20 16:25:56 michaels-imac _securityagent[307]: Begin script: createlinks
Oct 20 16:25:56 michaels-imac _securityagent[309]: End script: createlinks
Oct 20 16:25:56 michaels-imac _securityagent[310]: Begin script: deleteObsoleteFiles
Oct 20 16:25:56 michaels-imac _securityagent[314]: End script: deleteObsoleteFiles
Oct 20 16:25:56 michaels-imac _securityagent[318]: Running Install Scripts . . .
Oct 20 16:25:56 michaels-imac _securityagent[320]: Begin script: postinstall.sh
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Oct 20 16:25:56 michaels-imac installd[295]: postinstall: com.apple.mrt.uiagent: Invalid argument
Oct 20 16:25:56 michaels-imac installd[295]: postinstall: launchctl: Error unloading: com.apple.mrt.uiagent
Oct 20 16:25:56 michaels-imac installd[295]: postinstall: launchctl: Error unloading: com.apple.mrt
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Hi Friends,
I want to create plugin script for algorithm ,can any one pls explain me doubts to crate this plugin
1.In Plugin Script How can i get the soft paramenters (like in service script we have schema containts local variables(parms) for getting values from ui)
2.how can we include new hard parameters into Algorithm entity(should we place use=input/output)
My Requirment is the plugin script should take accountid and return boolean value by validating contracted quantity.
i tested this requirment with one simple ui and service script which use Bussiness Service .how can i convert service script to plugin script
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Hi,
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web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;
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catch (Exception ex)
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Thanks,
Dennis Guo
TechNet Community Support
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Windows
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Check this note,
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