I have not managed to make the template work at all. And the sample code projects are all too tied up in a big project structure to easily rip them out for a stand alone project. For new projects my starting point have been the HelloWorld plug-in described in the Getting Started Guide on page 28. ... View more

Hi hubgobllin!   Welcome! I'm also rather new in this and someone more experienced might have better advice. However, I had a bad experience getting started also, but now I'm up and running and writing my second plug-in. Unfortunately the documentation is not very updated, and contains a lot of errors. It recommends Visual Studio 2019, but I never got that to work at all. I now have a setup with Visual Studio 2017 that works fine. So my recommendeation is to go with that, and this also seems to match the SDK documents a little bit more I think. The PIPL stuff is a bit messy. There is an outdated way generate PIPL files, and a new way. The Getting Started Guide (page 33) describes how to implement the new way. Just follow it carefully and it should work. One other thing that I got stuck on is that you need a Python 2.7 installation (install with Visual Studio). After install, add the Python path to VC++ directories / Executable Directories in the project's properties.   Here are some random notes I did during setup: VS 2017 Python 2.7 64 bit Desktop Development C++ Toolset C++ MFC Install the Desktop Development C++ toolset (Tools/Get Tools and Features) with the Visual Studio Installer. Make sure the C++ toolset includes Windows 8.1 SDK. Make sure to set project to 64 bit (before editing project properties). Set the Python environment to 2.7   I hope this might help. Good luck! ... View more

There are many ways to sharpen a corner. It also depends on how the path is shaped. What probably has happened here is that the tracer has added a couple of extra anchor points where there should only be one. Use the direct selection tool (white arrow, shortcut [A]) to examine the paths and move anchor points. If you see anchor points that are not needed you can delete them using the pen tool [P]. When you are sure you only have one anchor point in that corner you should check that the anchor point type is "corner" and not "smooth" by selecting it and if needed converting it to "corner" in the properties panel. In some cases this might also be solved by dragging the corner widget for that specific corner down to zero. Or you could delete that part of the logo entierly and redraw it using the pen tool. All this takes some practise and I would recommend watching a basic tutorial on how to edit paths in Illustrator. ... View more

Hi Kundan! I'm not familiar with sAIShapeConstruction and maybe you need to use just that for some reason. If not, I would draw a U shape by first creating an AIArt object and drawing the 5 segments. Shaping the U curve by setting the path handles on the third segments. Here are some sample code that creates a simple U shape. Use the scale parameter for size. Please also see the image below showing of the resulting shape when  running this code. (Also mind that artview coordinates are not the same as segment coordinates, and might need to be converted.)   static ASErr PV_DrawUShape(const AIRealPoint &thePoint, const AIReal &theScale) { // the following suites should be loaded before calling this function if (!sAIArt) return -1; if (!sAIPath) return -1; ASErr error = kNoErr; AIArtHandle path; AIPathSegment segments[5]; // Create new art, we will fill it with points below. error = sAIArt->NewArt(kPathArt, kPlaceAboveAll, NULL, &path); if (error) goto error; // the U shape has 5 points error = sAIPath->SetPathSegmentCount(path, 5); // draw a U with it's curved butt centered at &thePoint: // # point 0 // upper left point of the U (starting point) segments[0].p.h = thePoint.h - 1 * theScale; segments[0].p.v = thePoint.v + 2 * theScale; // straight line segments[0].in = segments[0].out = segments[0].p; segments[0].corner = true; // # point 1 // mid left point of the U segments[1].p.h = thePoint.h - 1 * theScale; segments[1].p.v = thePoint.v + 1 * theScale; // straight line segments[1].in = segments[1].out = segments[1].p; segments[1].corner = true; // # point 2 // center bottom point of the U's butt segments[2].p.h = thePoint.h; // center position, should not scale segments[2].p.v = thePoint.v; // center position, should not scale // set handles for the curved line segments[2].in.h = thePoint.h - 1 * theScale; segments[2].in.v = thePoint.v; segments[2].out.h = thePoint.h + 1 * theScale; segments[2].out.v = thePoint.v; segments[2].corner = false; // not a corner! // # point 3 // mid right point of the U segments[3].p.h = thePoint.h + 1 * theScale; segments[3].p.v = thePoint.v + 1 * theScale; // straight line segments[3].in = segments[3].out = segments[3].p; segments[3].corner = true; // # point 4 // upper right point of the U (end point) segments[4].p.h = thePoint.h + 1 * theScale; segments[4].p.v = thePoint.v + 2 * theScale; // straight line segments[4].in = segments[4].out = segments[4].p; segments[4].corner = true; error = sAIPath->SetPathSegments(path, 0, 5, segments); if (error) goto error; error: return error; }   ... View more