Navigator/Portfolio SDK

I am wanting to create a custom layout for a PDF portfolio, which is turning out much more difficult than I'd hope.
I'm running CS6 on Mountain Lion OSX and the Navigator Project wizard option is unavailable. I'm unsure where exactly i'm supposed to store the SDK, as I followed the instructional page but the directories were incorrect or non-existant.
There is no plugins folder listed under Applications/Adobe Flash Builder 4.6, so I created one, which didn't do anything.
There is a plugins folder in eclipse, which still didn't do anything.
I went into the package contents of the app and created a plugins folder, which, again, did nothing.
If I open Fb and command+n, there is no Adobe Navigator folder or Navigator wizards to select.
I installed the Flex SDK as well, but i'm not sure if it worked.
This is the first time i've ever used flashbuilder, so i'm completely new to say the least, though I take lightly detailed instruction fairly well.
I'm slightly familiar with Flash if that helps. I took a full semester class about a year ago and can probably recall a good bit of I dwindle in it.

as per Joel's recommendation, used 4.5 instead - that worked just fine

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any advice would be greatly appreciated
Best Regards,
-Alex

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as a CC member I installed acrobat XI Pro, Adobe Flash Builder 4.7.
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I already followed the instruction provided by adobe: https://learn.adobe.com/wiki/display/PDFNAV/Installing+Acrobat+Portfolios+SDK but nothing happens.
This page seems outdated. How can you work this way?
Here is what I have done (windows 7 64bit):
I copied the "AcroFlashDebug.api" file in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 11.0\Acrobat\plug_ins"
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However, there are many situations where the PDF Portfolio will not display correctly: (1) You have an older version of Acrobat or Reader; (2) You have Acrobat X or Reader X installed and Flash Player is not installed on your computer (no longer is there an built-in Flash player); or (3) you're viewing the PDF Portfolio on an iPad or iPhone because iOS devices have never supported Flash Player.
In some of these situations, you may see a message that you saw: "For the best experience, open this PDF portfolio in Acrobat X or Adobe Reader X, or later." But that is a very misleading message.
In Adobe Reader for iOS just displays the PDFs that included in the PDF Portfolio.
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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.
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tried to install Portfolio SDK
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You may want to consider a "Job Offered" post to the Job Board forum at Adobe's Acrobat User Community.
http://acrobatusers.com/forum/job-board
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