This is a well known bug. C++ plugins are not copied in the plugins directory. We are still waiting for Adobe to fix it! ASAP! Plan B is to make your own installer for c++ plugins. Thomas. ... View more

You could take a look at AITagSuite. You would find all the methods you need to tag an AIArtHandle. -> SetTag, GetTag, ....... Thomas. ... View more

Hi, you could use Qt or an other third party library to do that. (Qt is running on Windows and Mac). But I would rather use HTML extension to complete such a task. Simplest and quickest. Thomas. ... View more

Hi, You should take a look at this documentation: http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/illustrator/sdk/CC2015/programmers-guide.pdf this will help you to understand what could be achieved using SDK. In the same time, you should read that too: https://github.com/Adobe-CEP/CEP-Resources/wiki/CEP-6-HTML-Extension-Cookbook-for-CC-2015 you will have a better idea of what could be done (UI). Best regards, Thomas. ... View more

Set and Get the title of the extension windows (Since 6.1) CEP 6.1 introduces two APIs to set and get the title of extension windows. Those functions work with modal and modeless extensions in all Adobe products, and panel extensions in Photoshop, InDesign, InCopy, Illustrator, Flash Pro and Audition: CSInterface.prototype.setWindowTitle = function(title){     window.__adobe_cep__.invokeSync("setWindowTitle", title); }; CSInterface.prototype.getWindowTitle = function(){     return window.__adobe_cep__.invokeSync("getWindowTitle", ""); }; Thomas. ... View more

What is the CEP revision you used? Try to upgrade to the latest revision. -6 or 6.1) Then update the manifest version value. This should be better. <ExtensionManifest ExtensionBundleId="com.example.helloworld" ExtensionBundleName="Hello world" ExtensionBundleVersion="1.0" Version="6.0"> Thomas. ... View more

I got the same issue aswell on mac with the last release of illustrator (19.2.0). Very annoying! ... View more

Hi, you could take a look at ''com.adobe.csxs.events.WindowVisibilityChanged' event. It seems to be working with panel type extension. But not working at all with modal dialog type extension. Thomas. ... View more

you should also considering the menu group your menu item is in. Remove only the menu item from the extension menu item group. You could do that using the menu group name. Thomas. ... View more

I have not thought about that solution. But thanks to Ed, I have solve my issue. Once everything is loaded and ready ( after being notified -fPlugPlugSetupCompleteNotifier), here is what I do: 1- get menu items count, 2- parse all menu items (loooooooop)      2-1 compare menu item string to the one I am looking for,           -> if it is the one: remove this menu item,           -> otherwise keep parsing. 3- Job done.      Sample Code: AIErr error = kNoErr; ai::int32 count = 0; ai::int32 index = 0; ai::UnicodeString itemString; AIMenuItemHandle menuItem ; ai::UnicodeString extension_menu("extension title"); error = sAIMenu->CountMenuItems(&count); for (index; index < count; index++){      error = sAIMenu->GetNthMenuItem(index, &menuItem);      if (menuItem != nullptr){            error = sAIMenu->GetItemText(menuItem, itemString);            if (itemString.compare(extension_menu) == 0){                 error = sAIMenu->RemoveMenuItem(menuItem);           }      } } return error; I hope this will help you! Thomas. ... View more

you should upgrade your extension. you should use CEP. The migration is quite easy. https://github.com/Adobe-CEP/CEP-Resources ... View more

This can be done using plugins, extensions or scripts. Adobe provides tools, documentation to develop any of this solutions. Any other solution won't work or won't work as fine as those. ... View more

Did you follow this steps: Inside FB, navigate to "Help > Install New Software" Select the "Add..." button Select the "Local..." button Find the unzipped Extension Builder archive Step through the rest of the wizard ... View more

You should install Extension Builder 2.0 instead. (designed for Flash Builder). CS Extension Builder 2 – now available to Buy/Try Extension Builder is designed for Eclipse and for developing CC extension. Extension Builder 3 | create HTML extensions for CC applications - Adobe Labs Thomas. ... View more

Hi, you should take a look at SnippetRunner project. (provided with sdks). DocumentActionHelper is the helper class you are looking for. you may to do some modifications, but it is a good start to begin with. ... View more

So, is it working? Did you use MakePNG24 ? ... View more

Take a look at this link (CS5-CS6): http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/creativesuite/pdfs/CS_SDK_Guide.pdf You should find everything you need. You can use extensions if you want to extend Illustrator functionalities. you can do that with c++ plugin as well.   ... View more

Flex -> CS5, CS6, HTML5/CSS3 -> CC 2015 (flex is no more supported). This is quite powerful. You can do whatever you want. Take a look at: https://github.com/Adobe-CEP/CEP-Resources/wiki/CEP-6-HTML-Extension-Cookbook-for-CC-2015#development_debugging https://github.com/Adobe-CEP/Samples Very helpful. Thomas. ... View more

Since no APIs are available (Illustrator SDK) to complete this task, this should be delegated to an extension.  ... View more

I do not agree. Adobe provides tools to do such things. You can develop extension (flex or HTML5 depending on CS revision) to do that. No need to you third party tools. (Qt or whatever) It is up to you. ... View more

You could develop an hybrid extension. (Flex for your custom dialog bow  and C++ in charge of menu items). Quite easy to do. Samples available in SDK. Thomas. ... View more

Why do you need to run a javascript file from a plugin? Is there anyway to do that using illustrator sdks? (no apis available for yours needs?). Or shouldn't you develop an extension instead? Thomas. ... View more

As leoTaro said, you should definitely take a look at AIImageOptimization.h and use MakePNG24 method. Take a look at AIImageOptPNGParams2 and AIImageOptPNGParams structs, which are used by MakePNG24. This way you could set the image resolution AIErr result = kNoErr; AIDataFilter* dstFilter = 0; AIDataFilter* filter = 0; ...... result = sAIDataFilter->NewFileDataFilter(fileP, "write", 'prw', 'PNGf', &filter); aisdk::check_ai_error(result); result = sAIDataFilter->LinkDataFilter(dstFilter, filter); aisdk::check_ai_error(result); dstFilter = filter; AIImageOptPNGParams2 params; params.versionOneSuiteParams.interlaced = ...; params.versionOneSuiteParams.numberOfColors = ....; params.versionOneSuiteParams.transparentIndex = ...; params.versionOneSuiteParams.resolution = 300; params.versionOneSuiteParams.outAlpha = ...; params.antialias = ConfigurationManager::GetAntialias(); /* A cropping box for the art. If empty or degenerate, do not crop. */ params.cropBox = bounds; params.backgroundIsTransparent = ConfigurationManager::GetBackgroundIsTransparentProperty(); result = sAIImageOpt->MakePNG24 (art, dstFilter, params, MyRasterizeProgressProc); aisdk::check_ai_error(result); .... if (dstFilter) {   result = sAIDataFilter->UnlinkDataFilter (dstFilter, &dstFilter);   aisdk::check_ai_error(result); } I hope this will be helpful. Thomas. ... View more

Hi, Which method of which suite are you actually using for making your export? There is definitely a way to set resolution parameter depending on how you do that. Best regards, Thomas. ... View more

Hi, Just take a look at this thread. This should be helpful: Handling Drag and Drop Regards, Thomas. ... View more

I used PackageMaker too on MacOSX to create package. This application allows you to set the plugin installation directory. I guess you could add scripts to your package to deal with Illustrator revision and installation directories.  (I had a single package for each Illustrator revison, so I did not have the issue you have.) ... View more

Not sure if this is actually possible. I have got the same issue while closing my Flash based extension, using swatch closed button (top right cross). There is no way to handle the close event, unfortunately....  ... View more

Just take a look at this tool: ExtendScript toolkit.  You could find it here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/scripting.html This will help you. Thomas. ... View more

You could give a look at FreedGrid/UI or StrikeFilter/UI projets. (sdk samples). You will definitely find everything you are asking for. 1- How to set your plugin (tools,menus, notifications and communication). 2- How to set your extension (communication with your plugin, show, hide, load and unload extension). Easy as 1,2,3! Here is a sample code showing you how it works: /* */ ASErr FreeGridPlugin::GoMenuItem(AIMenuMessage* message) {           ASErr result = kNoErr;           // Compare the menuItem selected (in the message) with our stored values to see if we do anything           if (message->menuItem == this->fAboutPluginMenu)           {                          // Pop this plug-in's about box.                          SDKAboutPluginsHelper aboutPluginsHelper;                          aboutPluginsHelper.PopAboutBox(message, "About FreeGrid", kSDKDefAboutSDKCompanyPluginsAlertString);           }           else if (message->menuItem == this->fMoveToNewAIMenu)           {                     if (freeGridDialogController)                     {                                    ASBoolean visible = freeGridDialogController->GetPanelReady();                                    if(visible)                               {                                              result = freeGridDialogController->UnloadExtension();                                              freeGridDialogController->SetPanelReady(false);                               }                               else                               {                                              result = freeGridDialogController->LoadExtension();                               }                     }           }           return result; } Best reagards, Thomas. ... View more

Extension: 1- My biggest problem at the moment is how to track the cursor's position without making a plugin tool. I do not know if such a thing is possible. What you could do is: 1- Download the latest version of ExtendScript Toolkit (ESTK 3.8) available with Creative Suite 6. 2- Open the Object Model viewer. 3- Select Adove Illustrator CS6 Type Library. 4- Try to find if Cursor object. Propeties, methods? If there is something avaible in here, you could implement what you want to do in your extension. Otherwise, I am affraid that should be done in a c++ plugin.  Plugin: Is there a notifier or caller that is constantly called? Something like kSelectorAITrackToolCursor, if it could work with Illustrators default tools. Give a look at AITool.h. All tool notifiers are defined here. Here it is somethiong that could interesting: Sent when the tool is selected and as the cursor is moved over the artboard with the button up. The plug-in can set the cursor based on location or some other factor. The message data is an \c #AIToolMessage. */ #define kSelectorAITrackToolCursor     "AI Track Cursor" You can handle cursor position in your plugin with that notifier. See the first reply I did. Once done, you have to send the data to your extension, using csxs event. ... View more