Making an Acrobat plugin available in Reader

[Brian_Power@adobeforums.com]

Hi all,

I've written a simple plugin for Acrobat with the 6.0 SDK. It works fine. Now I want to make it available in Reader 7.0 (and in 6.0 of course, it just happens that i have 7 on my machine).

According to the documentation all I need to do is insert "#define READER_PLUGIN 1" and "#include "PIRequir.h"". I put these lines in my "PIMain.c" file. Then I dropped the "Myplugin.api" into the plugins folder of Reader 7.0, "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\plug_ins" on my machine.

Am I missing something fundemental here? I was under the impression that the SDK covered both Reader and Acrobat.

BTW all my plugin does is add a menu and 2 menuitems, I then call some VB activexs from thier "MyMenuItemCommand" rountines.

Thanks in advance,
Brian Power

[Bernd Alheit]

Am I missing something fundemental here?




Yes, read the document ReaderEnabling.pdf.