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owita
Inspiring
April 21, 2010
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Plug in: develop on Windows platform but use on Mac OS

  • April 21, 2010
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I'm going to develop a plug in for Adobe Illustrator CS4. That plug in will be used on a Mac OS X V 10.6.1.

At the moment I have only a windows PC with Visual Studio 2005. Is it possible to create a plug in on the windows platform and use it on Mac OS later? Do I have to adapt the plug in for using on Mac OS however?

Many thanks!

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Anonymous
April 22, 2010

Most of the code can be used on either platform, but there are a few things that would have to be changed. I believe there's a doc in the SDK that describes some of the differences.

A. Patterson
A. Patterson
Inspiring
April 22, 2010

You can build a plugin on Windows and that should let you mostly get the guts of it working. But you can't share the binary between the two platforms. You'll need to setup a project in X-Code and there are a number of things that you'd have to do on the Mac side of things (as btemp mentioned). Particularly if you do anything with resources (which you have to do a little since both platforms need the PIPL). Still, most of the work would definitely be done if you had it up and running on Windows.

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owitaAuthor
Inspiring
April 23, 2010

Many thanks for the answers. I will note your tips.

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