ASFileAcquirePathName returns UNIX-style pathname on Windows

[Petej]

I am trying to get the pathname of the active document in Acrobat using the following:

ACCB1 std::string ACCB2 GetActiveDocumentFilename() {

AVDoc activeDocument = AVAppGetActiveDoc();

if (!activeDocument) {

return "";

}

PDDoc document = AVDocGetPDDoc(activeDocument);

if (!document) {

return "";

}

ASFile file = PDDocGetFile(document);

if (!file) {

return "";

}

ASPathName filePath = ASFileAcquirePathName(file);

if (!filePath) {

return "";

}

return ASFileSysDIPathFromPath(NULL, filePath, NULL);

}

However, the pathname I get is (for example) /D/Documents/Testing/Test.pdf

Is there a way to get a Windows-formatted path/filename?

Cheers

Pete

[Petej · Accepted solution]

I used ASFileSysDisplayStringFromPath

[Test Screen Name]

That is only superficially Unix style. What it actually is, is a DIPath (Device Independent Path) which is what is stored inside a PDF for links etc, and what Acrobat always uses internally. But...this code is fundamentally wrong because it treats an ASPathName as a string. Yes, sometimes it is, and sometimes it is binary data which would crash your plug-in. You need to treat an ASPathName as an opaque pointer, and pass it to an API (with the ASFileSys) for conversion. I think you may already have solved that, but it's important to mention it.

[Petej]

Thanks for the info, yes I dug a bit further into the documentation and found that method.