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Mario Arizmendi
Mario Arizmendi
Legend
July 6, 2009
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What exactly is Illustrator SDK?

  • July 6, 2009
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Hi All

I am curious to know what is Illustrator SDK, cant' find any information, so if any body knows some useful link......

thanks

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Correct answer A. Patterson

It's a C-style API for writing your own plugin to Illustrator (though its really C++ now). Basically, anything you see Illustrator do, you can do with the SDK, because Illustrator itself is largely (95%) written in the SDK. This means you can manipulate menus, art, create floating panels, toolbars, dialogs, etc.

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A. Patterson
A. PattersonCorrect answer
Inspiring
July 7, 2009

It's a C-style API for writing your own plugin to Illustrator (though its really C++ now). Basically, anything you see Illustrator do, you can do with the SDK, because Illustrator itself is largely (95%) written in the SDK. This means you can manipulate menus, art, create floating panels, toolbars, dialogs, etc.

Mario Arizmendi
Mario ArizmendiAuthor
Legend
July 7, 2009

Thank you, and do you know where can I start learning?

A. Patterson
A. Patterson
Inspiring
July 7, 2009

Your best bet is to just download the SDK and try your hand at building the example plugins. That's how I learned Pick an example and try tweaking its behaviour in small ways until you get a feel for how the API works and once you've got that down, move on to something more interesting!

Make sure you read the getting-started-guild.pdf, as that's a good introduction.

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