Hello world for indesign CS6 SDK

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December 6, 2012
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Is there any hello world plugin for the Indesign CS6 SDK. Please share the link of the source

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Manan Joshi

Community Expert

The InDesign SDK is shipped with number of sample plugins which you can build and have a look at the source code. Have a look at the sample plugin projects placed in the folder

"(Path of the InDesign SDK)\build\win\prj". In this folder there are projects for a lot of sample plugins which demonstrate programming different aspects of InDesign, pick up any of these plugins and study the code. You can find more details on these plugins in the chm file shipped with sdk.

For the start i would recommend you start with the writefishprice plugin.

-Manan

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Rocky@

Known Participant

Hi Manan,

Please see the below screenshot and how to install the plugin in indesign. Im really confused to install the sample project in indesign plugin folder and which file to edit in the below screenshot

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Manan Joshi

Community Expert

Thks Dirk!

Eventhough Dolly is not required. How could I place the plugin file in the indesign application folder.

The projects for all SDK examples are located in SDK/builld/mac/prj

In the mentioned above path all the files in xcodeproj extension, how to place the file in indesign application folder

And also is it correct to place the SDK folder in my local folder or some other standard path

Hello Vijay,

Seems you are confusing the project files with the plugin files, which are the ones that you place in the InDesign applications Plug-Ins folder.

The xcodeproj file are project files that you would open in Xcode(mind to install the correct version of Xcode as suggested by Dirk Becker). To identify which version of XCode to use, refer the porting guide section of the documentation shipped along with the sdk. Once you open up the xcodeproj file in Xcode, build it and that will produce the plugin file with extension .InDesignPlugin. Copy this file into the InDesign applications Plug-Ins folder and if you have built the plugin correctly it should load.

Also make sure you make the build according to the version of InDesign that you have installed, if you have release version of InDesign build the release target of the project, if you have debug version build the debug version of the project, otherwise the plugin will not load.

-Manan

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