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the error "invalid plugin detected. Adobe Reader will quit"

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July 30, 2008
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I have gotten the RIKLA from Adobe. And I use the example code BasicPlugin(you can download it from Adobe wetsite) as my plug_in, then, I made the api file according to the steps in document in the "Creating an Adobe Reader Plug_in" section of the "Developping Plug_ins and Applications". As last,I copy the api file to plug_ins folder, open Adobe Reader 8. I saw under the Tool memu there is a new menu named Acrobat sdk so that I think the api file is loaded successfully by Acrobat reader. But an error appears, it is "invalid plugin detected. Adobe Reader will quit". Can someone tell me why?Thank you.

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Roboblob

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Has anyone tried this in Visual Studio 2010?

thanks,

Roboblob

http://blog.roboblob.com

lrosenth

Adobe Employee

VS 2010 is not supported for development of plugins.

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Anonymous

I have met the same problem.

Our plugin is developed using SDK 7 and worked fine under Acrobat 7/8/9.

This afternoon we receive the certificate from adobe and then i use "SignPlugin" tool to sign our plugin.

The sign process is successful.

But when i start up Reader 9.2 it shows the error.....

Could somebody tell me why?

lrosenth

Adobe Employee

You need to use the signing tool in the Acrobat 9 SDK, since the Reader IKLA key is only valid for a single version of Reader (9, in this case).

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Anonymous

Yes, we are using the signing tool in acrobat 9 SDK.

Should i build my plugin with acrobat 9 SDK?

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bulgariangirl

Participant

I think you guys are making thing way too complicated.

Here is why I got this error.

I had the normal Adobe Reader 8 but I found out that the new Adobe Reader 9 Pro has this OCR text recognition thingy which is the coolest thing ever for college student like me. Anyway, after I downloaded the trail and got the best out of it, it expired and left me with nothing

I am going to skip the next part because I end up uninstalling the Pro and then installing it again hoping I will get another 30 days (silly me) but from doing all this the 8 got all messed up.

Now, I competely got rid off the Pro and have 8 but it kept getting the above mentioned error. Here is how I fixed it because nothing worked from the previous posts:

1. I opened the .pdf file

2. I clicked on Help

3. Clicked on REPAIR ADOBE READER INSTALLATION

4...and magically everything works just fine again

I hope this helps to some of us.

Peace!

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P-Jansen

Participant

Unfortunately the instructions did not work for me. I received this 'invalid plugin detected' immediately after I had installed CutePDF Writer. Obviously it has installed a plug-in somewhere which Adobe Reader is picking up on, it then terminates the program. I have uninstalled the programe and have tried to clean my Windows 7 operating system with CCleaner, all to no avail.

ADOBE this is not good news, so many hits on this in Google, you've messed up big time. The only way to get to my PDF documents is to get another PDF reader installed. I guess that is the last Adobe wants, so please get your finger out and sort this out.

lrosenth

Adobe Employee

I don't understand what this has to do with the Acrobat SDK.

It sounds like you've discovered an issue with the CutePDF product, not ours. Why don't you report the issue to their support staff?

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_Leonard_Rosenthol_

Participating Frequently

Those are NOT standard Adobe plugins...I would contact the author/publisher...

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_Jittu_Sharma_

Participant

I tried up-issues (Adobe Reader 8.1.2+) and got the same error "invalid plugin detected. Adobe Reader will quit".

I fixed this error by following laborious steps described in the Adobe Technical Support Home.
Not sure if this helps you guys; but worth a try. Developers should say if this the real cause.

You can find these in the "plug-ins" folder.

"HAEvents32.api" is the main culprit. Along that, I removed "Helmant32.api" and "Helmbkmk32.api".
Without deleting these two, an error or two might come but still PDF will work. I tried all these combinations.

Note: Delete these files if present anywhere else in the system else they recreate themselves.

Forgive me if this is not a place for kids like me. :) I am not a Techie ;) Thanks every one.

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Dr Garrison

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in response to: (Jittu_Sharma)

Nov 16, 2008 10:37 AM in response to: (bruce628) Re: the error "invalid plugin detected. Adobe Reader will quit"

I followed your instructions

"You can find these in the "plug-ins" folder. "

I finally found my culprit, I deleted one file folder at a time, then restored them from my Recycle Bin.

I finally found my culprit, in the folder “Babylon” the file “BabylonRPI" was the main culprit.

I deleted the whole Babylon file folder, and havent had the error "invalid plugin detected. Adobe Reader will quit" ever since.

Thank you very much kid, you kept it simple, I am not a Techie either.

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_billnie_

Participant

Yes, I don't enabled the plug as per the sdk.

Thank you!

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_Leonard_Rosenthol_

Participating Frequently

Did you Reader Enable the plugin as per the SDK?

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_billnie_

Participant

If I disalbe the following code No that error
ACCB1 ASBool ACCB2 PISetupSDK (ASUns32 handshakeVersion, void *sdkData)
{
....
//data->handshakeCallback = (ASCallback)ASCallbackCreateProto(PIHandshakeProcType, PIHandshake);
....
}

But if I don't disable the above and just return true in the following code has the error

ACCB1 ASBool ACCB2 PIHandshake(Uns32 handshakeVersion, void *handshakeData)
{

return true;
....
}

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_billnie_

Participant

I am also has the error.

sdk version 9.0
Reader9.0

And anyone can tell me why?

Thanks!

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_Sanctus_Germanus_

Participating Frequently

Which version of the Acrobat SDK are you using?

Sanctus

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