Creating a Tools Separator in Acrobat X Toolbar

I have an Acrobat plug-in which, for Acrobat X, creates a custom toolbar with AVToolBarNew and then positions it on the Tools pane with AVAppRegisterToolBarPosition. As I have a lot of tools on this I would like to group them with tools separators just like Acrobat's Pages tools does with "Insert Pages" and "Edit Page Design" separators.
However, when I try to create a separator with AVToolButtonNew it does not appear in my custom toolbar whether or not I try to specify some additional text with AVToolButtonSetLabelText or any other options. Are these the right calls or do I need to do something else to get what I want?
Thanks for any help.
David

Thanks, that has saved me time trying to get it to work:-)
Thanks
David

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“I’ll never give you a job to print.”
Lead with an insult, good start.
You know, I read your comment, and the link, right before I went to bed. I thought I would respond then, but thought I should sleep on it. Well I slept on it, and I’m actually MORE p***ed off today than last night. I will try to keep this as professional as possible…
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No S**t (so much for professional). Which is why it’s unfortunate that Apple forced this workflow on people like me.
I asked SPECIFICALLY about color SEPARATIONS in the title of the post and throughout the post. The link you provided did not provide an answer to this. It explained how terrible “refrying” a PDF can be. And what was the solution it gave?
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““Such an outdated time consuming workflow !!!”
Right, which is why I’m trying to avoid it. In reality, the entire process only involves 1 extra step over the PC workflow, and the Distill process literally takes a few seconds. But, I don’t want to Distill for all the reasons listed in the link you provided. And if i follow the advice of the link, saving to EPS, I DO NOT have the option of SEPARATIONS. Which is why I’m trying to save a PDF from AI, the use all the functionality of Acrobat Pro to SEPARATE my colors. Again, the manual to Acrobat says I can print my SEPARATIONS to a file, but I only have the option to print to my desktop printer from the Acrobat Print Dialog box, even though I have DO have other options in AI and InDesign.
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I see your skills are:
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I'm an InDesign Digital Publishing Suite specialist too. I am also a trainer and the webmaster of abracadabraPDF.net, the only French web site dedicated to PDF and Acrobat.”
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To: Leonard Rosenthol
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