error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _sApplicationPaint

[Oviya___]

Hi,

Im creating plug-in for illustrator cs3 sdk using visula studio 2005. I need to get text frame art type. For using this, i added IText.cpp and IThrowException.cpp. I got 79 errors related to IText.cpp.

The error is like

error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _sApplicationPaint

error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _sCompFont

error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _sCompFontClass
1>IText.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _sCompFontClassSet

How to solve this

[Toto RoToTO]

Just take a look at your project properties.

Be sure to set correctly the additional Include directories.

Thomas.

[A. Patterson]

The includes sound okay; what it sounds like is he's missing whatever .c/.cpp actually declares the variables. Its been a while since I worked with the SDK's skeleton plugin, so I can't remember which file that is -- suites.cpp maybe? Whatever file it is, it just needs to be added to the project.

[padmanabanp_IndCbe]

Although I'm too late, thought it will help someone in need. To resolve the external symbols, follow the steps specified under the heading Adding text support to your plug-in (in page 10 and 11) in the following document:

http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/illustrator/sdk/CC/using-adobe-text-engine.pd...

Adding text support to your plug-in

For your plug-in to use the Adobe text engine API, it must compile the Adobe text engine wrapper classes

and acquire the necessary suites for these classes during start-up.

In Visual C++, follow these steps to add the required source code:

1.     Add <SDK>/illustratorapi/ate/IText.cpp to the list of project source files.

2.     Right-click IText.cpp in the Solution Explorer and choose Properties.

3.     Under C/C++ > Precompiled Headers, set Create/Use Precompiled Header to Not Using Precompiled Headers.

4.     Repeat with <SDK>/illustratorapi/ate/IThrowException.cpp

In the source code, follow these steps:

1.     Add the following include instruction to the file that contains the definition of the suite pointers.

(See <SDK>/samplecode/MarkedObjects/Source/MarkedObjectsSuites.h)

#include "ATETextSuitesImportHelper.h"

2.     Add EXTERN_TEXT_SUITES to the list of external suite pointers.

(See <SDK>/samplecode/MarkedObjects/Source/MarkedObjectsSuites.cpp)

3.     Add IMPORT_TEXT_SUITES to the list of suites and suite versions to be imported.

(See <SDK>/samplecode/MarkedObjects/Source/MarkedObjectsSuites.cpp)