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Inspiring
May 1, 2019
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Installing ZXP Extensions on CC Enterprise

  • May 1, 2019
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I am looking for ideas/input on a potential work-around to install ZXP extensions on Photoshop CC Enterprise that does not require a lot of confusing, tedious manual steps (from the end user's perspective).

According to the Enterprise documentation - Including extensions in your package - encrypted packages, i.e., ZXP extensions from Adobe Exchange are not installed via the package method and based on my own experience launching a product to Exchange and reports from Enterprise users, you cannot install from Exchange nor using any of the popular Extension Manager installers.

I have verified that it is possible to un-archive the ZXP and manually place the folder structure in /Application Support/Adobe/CEP/extensions but my concern is that this might be problematic for end users. I don't think it is really all that technical, obviously, but many users have a psychological aversion to messing with what they perceive as the core system.

It is probably a long shot but I'm curious if anyone else has encountered this problem and what solutions you've employed to work around it.

Thanks in advance.

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So you want personally to uncovert .ZXP and provide the content (so all folders with files in bulk) to users?

You can attach .jsx script (user will run by Photoshop) that will copy all of that to Adobe/CEP/Extension folder.

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Legend
May 1, 2019

So you want personally to uncovert .ZXP and provide the content (so all folders with files in bulk) to users?

You can attach .jsx script (user will run by Photoshop) that will copy all of that to Adobe/CEP/Extension folder.

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Inspiring
May 1, 2019

Thanks for the feedback. I will take a look at this as an option.

Question for you to follow up. I work on a Mac so I know the path to the CEP/Extensions folder. Do you happen to know the path on Windows? I'm sure I can look it up and will do so but thought I'd ask for the sake of clarity and completeness on this thread.

Thanks again.

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Inspiring
May 1, 2019

I just tried remove.bg extension by site where you can upload and image, then in Photoshop with Select Subject. The result is almost same so isn't in this extension the same Photoshop tool used or maybe other algorithm, or else first both of them?

I wonder how you omit passowrd that user must enter on Macintosh to allow modification in 'Application Support' folder?


The extension calls the API from the site so it is the same server-side service that is doing both. The website is good for single images but if you are a photographer processing hundreds or even thousands of images it will become a huge pain to do it through the web browser. This is also the first version of the extension and I know Kaleido (the maker) has a  lot more features planned for the future.

The only way to remove the necessity to enter a password for modifying Application Support is to change the file/folder permissions but this is not a good idea. They are set this way so that any malicious code that might be introduced to your system cannot access that folder. If it could it could easily inject code into other apps.

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