Plugin to Illustrator in Java?

[_Ravikiran_]

Hi,

Can a plugin be developed for Adobe Illustrator in Java?

Thanks.

[A. Patterson]

As far as I know your only options are to use a scripting language (like ExtendScript which comes with Illustrator) or the C/C++ API.

[_Ravikiran_]

Thank you for taking time to answer.

[panduvittala]

You should be able to load and run VM within illustrator and make java calls using jni. But if you want to access the AI Suite classes from java, you may have to write all the java interfaces and type conversions on your own.