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Heimdaal
Inspiring
March 13, 2017
Question

Location of the plug-ins directory on Windows?

  • March 13, 2017
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Here's my problem:

I'm making an installer for Photoshop and Adobe stuff and I need to know the location of the Adobe Illustrator plug-ins folder on Windows.
For Photoshop, I just let this installer look into the registry to find the path (which can be found under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Adobe > Photoshop > 110.0 > PluginPath). For me that value is c:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2017\Plug-ins\ - which is the default install location.

But there is no such registry keys for Adobe Illustrator, which is odd because I can see the path on the harddrive - for me it's located in the default install location c:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CC 2015\Plug-ins\

I've searched for that path in the registry and it is no where to be found!

How am I supposed to find the Illustrator plug-ins path from the Windows registry??

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3 replies

Monika Gause
Community Expert
Monika GauseCommunity Expert
Community Expert
March 13, 2017

Your choice.

You can ask people who have been creating installers for years or you can try and continue asking in the General forum.

Monika Gause
Community Expert
Monika GauseCommunity Expert
Community Expert
March 13, 2017

You might want to discuss the issue in there: Illustrator SDK

The requirements for making an installer might be somewhat more complicated.

H
HeimdaalAuthor
Inspiring
March 13, 2017

That won't be necessary.
"Installer" might be the wrong word here. What I need to do is to setup symlinks between a known location and the Adobe Illustrator plug-ins folder (which is an unknown location - the user can install the application anywhere they like)

Ray Yorkshire
Ray Yorkshire
Participating Frequently
March 13, 2017

Past my pay grade but  had a quick look

on win 7 there seems to be Illustrator keys under

Registry editor

Computer

Hkey local machine

Software

Classes

then way down the list Adobe illustrator etc

Using the Edit > Find > Subscribe

I see that free plug in is under classes too

H
HeimdaalAuthor
Inspiring
March 13, 2017

I took a look there but I can't find any values that hold the Plug-ins path
The class Adobe.Illustrator.Plugin for instance only holds info about some icon.

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