Adobe Plugin window

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September 24, 2025
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I work on pdf editor plugin for adobe acrobat pro. So my issue is whenever i open a window(lets say tool window of the plugin) and i click on the other adobe tools the plugin window gets closed. I was wondering if there is a way to keep the plugin window open unless u explicitly close it. but u have to be able to work with other adobe tools.i am thinking of ways to work with handle returned by the window

Karl Heinz Kremer

Community Expert

How are you creating the plug-in's user interface? What operating system? Which version of Acrobat?

It is definitely possible to keep a window active while you are working with other tools in Acrobat. However, this is not the right forum for this, I will move your question to the Acrobat SDK forum.

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brilliant_care1058Author

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Hi karl, Thanks for the reply. So to develop the plugin ui , I use windows forms( xaml) (.net ). I use COM to communicate between c++ code and c#. The data gets transferred between them cpp and c#. Also if possible can u please post the forum link here

Thom Parker

Community Expert

If you are creating a tool, then you must have provided functions for managing the tool when it was registered with Acrobat. Are you using the Activate and Deactivate functions to display and close the tool window?

Are you displaying the window as Modal? or Modless?

C# operates outside of the Acrobat Context. So a window created in C# is not directly affected by the Acrobat plug-in environment. I would think that there is something in the plug-in code that is telling the C# app to close the window.

Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScriptingUse the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often

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