Plugin developer support forums?

[reborn@adobeforums.com]

Hi there

I currently work in a print room that uses the full acrobat version. We use version 7.x. I am a hobby coder in several OOP languages, predominantly C++.

I currently need some functionality beyond the scope of the print driver and acrobat too. I am hoping to write my own plugin for it to support my needs.

Could someone furnish me with a complete solution in a compilable state of the existing plugin source for 7.05 please? I currently use visualstudio.net2005. I am only a hobby coder and will most likely not get very far, but I want to try anyway. If someone would be so helpful as to upload the solution for me from the existing source code I would really appreciate it. Or, if I have posted this in the wrong are, link me to the correct forum.

Perhas there is a community forum somewhere I might fit in that you could suggest?

[PDL@adobeforums.com]

A couple of things:

Acrobat 7.0.x uses VS2003 as a Development Environment - it was not tested with VS2005 and code compiled in VS2005 is not guaranteed to work with Acrobat 7.0.x.

If you download the Adobe Acrobat 7.0.5 SDK, it comes with several complete plug-in examples that you can start from, as well as the API Reference for plug-ins.

<http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/index.html?navID=downloads>

[reborn@adobeforums.com]

Ah, thanks for the advice. I also use visualstudio.net2003, so many thanks. When I tried using 2005 it threw up some errors, hence the request.
I will try using 2003 and see what happens. Although I noticed there was no solution file, you had to create this yourself using the .cpp and header files. If they used the VS IDE to create it, I don't see why they wouldn't of released this too, even if it was done separtely from the borland users and other compilers.
Whilst it may seem like a stupid thing to stumble on before even writing any code, I am not used to creating solutions from existing files, this is what threw me a little.

My sincere thanks to you PDL.

[PDL@adobeforums.com]

Solution files are included in SDK 8 and newer, but if you only have Acrobat 7.0.x you need to stick to the 7.0.5 SDK.

[Leonard_Rosenthol@adobeforums.com]

Also, be sure to use the Plugin Wizard for Visual Studio to create your plugins from - it makes things SO MUCh eaiser...

[reborn@adobeforums.com]

Thanks guys, pretty strange thing, I redownloaded the and installed the SDK for 7.05 and there where solution files for the example plug-ins. I either never noticed them before or they was added recently...

All is working and I'm able to compile with .net2003. Thanks a bunch! :-)