HTML Plugin development for illustrator from scracth

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February 20, 2019
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Hi, I am a new bee to the development of third party HTML plugins for illustrator. I am not sure how to start? what tools to be installed on my computer? which IDE to use? what exact steps to follow for developing extensions to the illustrator?

Could anyone please help me out with this.

Thanks

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Srishti Bali

Community Manager

Discussion moved to Illustrator SDK

Nikhil R Gupta

Community Manager

Hello Kavya,

In addition to Myra's response, you may also check the below links.

https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/illustrator/pdf/sdk/getting-started-guide-cc.pdf

Illustrator Scripting | Adobe Developer Connection

Adobe Illustrator CC SDK for plugins and extensions | Adobe I/O

Thanks,

Nikhil Gupta

kavyabJune11997Author

Participant

Hi Nikhil,

Thanks for your reply.

Document providing information on developing c++ document. How do I implement HTML and javascript plugin ?

Thanks,

Kavya

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Frank Vyncke

Known Participant

Kavya,

I started by building and installing the FreeGrid and FreeGridUI example. (yes, you need 2 plugins: a C++ 'Illustrator' plugin and a CEP plugin for the UI)

Luckily I used to write plugins when all was still done in C++, so most of the stuff in that example made sense, and I was able to leap into the HTML world by using this example. But it is true that the Illustrator SDK documentation deserves an update to make it 'compatible' with the contents of the SDK, and it should contain at least one example explaining how to build UI 'the way that Adobe wants us to do it'