plugin creation

Legend

Please follow our advice. Start with the simplest plug-in. We are not interested in your results with a more complicated one until you have loaded a simple one. That is difficult enough.

Legend

I think you are trying to find a way to do this without a budget. You cannot.

To summarize, for I hope the last time.

1. To develop plug-ins you will need Acrobat (paid for)

2. EITHER

(a) every end user will need Acrobat also, their own paid for copy,

OR

(b) you will need to negotiate and your company will need to pay for a Reader key so your end users can work in Reader.

Legend

With no integration key, the plugin will NOT get added to Reader. EVERYONE using the plug-in needs to pay for their OWN copy of Acrobat. EVERYONE. The developer and every user.

Yes, the SDK exists for only one purpose: to sell more copies of Acrobat.

Known Participant

ok i get it that integration key is required to add a plugin to reader...

but you said if we buy adobe then integration key will not be required...ryt??

so then how will the plugin get added to reader?

Community Expert

You must enable the plugin for Reader. Then can the Reader use the plugin.

Legend

Yes, but you must stop using Acrobat Reader.

Known Participant

stop as in uninstall adobe acrobat reader dc?

Community Expert

You don't need uninstall it.

Legend

To start with you need to pay for Acrobat. Have you got Acrobat? No? Then get it. Forget Acrobat Reader for now, that is a long way from your starting point, and costs a lot of money.

Known Participant

no. i dont have Acrobat.

Do i have to pay to get acrobat too?

i mean my company.

Legend

Was my reply not clear? You develop your plug-ins for Acrobat, not Acrobat Reader. If you don't have Acrobat you need to pay for it.

Known Participant

please tell me what is the difference between creating plugin for acrobat and not acrobat reader??

i am not clear as to why?

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/acrobat_dc_sdk/2015/HTMLHelp/#t=Acro12_MasterBook%2FPlugins_ReaderPlug%2FDeveloping_and_enabling_an_Acrobat_Reader_plug-in.htm%23XREF_28317_Enabling_an_Adobe

Community Expert

For Adobe Acrobat you don't need the Adobe Reader Integration Key.

Legend

I've read that you might find it there but nothing about how to manually install it...

Known Participant

hello. i have run BasicPlugin in visual studio and .api file is generated. now when i open the adobe acrobat reader dc software, i want to add this newly created plugin there(on the right side along with other plugins like create PDF, edif PDF,etc).

how can i do that??

Legend

The wizard is supposed to install with the SDK. You might need to reinstall the SDK.

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Anonymous

ok. i will try. thank you...

Legend

You need to follow instructions EXACTLY. The most frustrating part of starting with plugins, is getting that first project to build and run. It is VITAL not to try to change anything, because it is hard enough with all the right elements. An expert could surely make other versions of Visual Studio work if it was important enough. This is even more important if you are new to Visual Studio, and concepts such as header file locations.

BasicPlugin is a project sample, so you open it as a project from its folder.

Don't be downhearted. This is not easy and all of us have struggled for the first few days or weeks.

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Anonymous

Thank you for the answers. Will come back to you people after trying this....

Legend

Bemd has said that you need to use VIsual Studio 2013. You say you are using Visual Studio 2015. Are you using 2015 because the Acrobat SDK documentation says this exactly? If it does not say this, please refer to my initial reply 2.

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Anonymous

Acrobat SDK documentation says VS2013. I thought higher version of visual studio will support. Is it possible to use visual studio 2015 for DC?