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November 22, 2021
Question

MAC illustrator 2022 is not detecting plugin

  • November 22, 2021
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We are working on a plug-in that was working fine with Adobe Illustrator 2021 25.0 and 25.0.1 but for the later version of Illustrator 2021 and recently released 2022 , it is not loading the plugin anymore on macOS. On windows, 2021 plug-in was also working fine.

 

Could you please suggest if there is any new requirement or change required to compile a plugin for these new version (25.1) of Illustartor 2021 and Illustrator 2022? 

 

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Legend
November 25, 2021

Do you Notarize it (for Catalina, Big Sur or later)? Did you build for Intel, ARM or both?

Known Participant
November 26, 2021

yes we do notarise the plugin

erinferinferinf
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
November 22, 2021

Is your plugin a CEP panel (JavaScript), or does it have C++ components?

 

It could be that macOS users need to use your plugin in Rosetta mode.

 

There was a C++ update here, but I don't think that's the issue with 2022: https://medium.com/adobetech/an-illustrator-25-1-update-for-plugin-developers-31aa4baaeecc?source=friends_link&sk=f54bb36a53a215b2e26f941ec5082ef0

 

There was also an issue with AiHostAdapter not being signed, and I had to upload it here: https://github.com/Adobe-CEP/CEP-Resources/tree/master/CEP_11.x/AIHostAdapter

Known Participant
November 25, 2021

I am trying generating pipl files as mentioned in your links. Meanwhile I checked for previous version of Illustrator plugins which we built, we never used/generated any pipl files.

So can there be another reason for this issue  ?

rama_ai11751598
Community Manager
Community Manager
December 8, 2021

Hi,

Thanks for sharing your iputs. We have build the plugin for Illustartor 26 and Illustrator able to detect our application.

But Illustrator is not appearing in Mac OS / System Prefs / Security and Privacy / Automation settings and therefore not allowing Illustrator to control other Apps like our application. Do you know why illustartor 26 is not appearing this automation setting ? For earlier versions of Illustartor, it was always automaticaly recognised by automation settings. 

 


Please share a screen recording to explain "But Illustrator is not appearing in Mac OS / System Prefs / Security and Privacy / Automation settings and therefore not allowing Illustrator to control other Apps like our application". It will help us understand what are the limitations of Illustrator being not listed in Automation settings.

You can share more details here sharewithai@adobe.com

 

-Rama

Illustrator Team

 

Met1
Legend
November 22, 2021

I know nothing about plug-in development but isn't there a specific portal/site for developers to get the latest info, aside from just https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/plug-ins.html, that you should already know about and have access to?