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window.close not working on indesign cc2014

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 06:50:20 GMT

Hi All

I am developing an extension for InDesign CS5 and above. I have a dialog of type panel, CSXSWindowType.PANEL which opens up on button click. This dialog contains a button for closing it. The click event executes " this.close() ".

Now, the problem is that for ID CC2014 this.close() is not closing the dialog. Only the default close button at the corner of the window closes it. I have no idea why the dialog is behaving this way. It works in all the other versions.

Any ideas?

Load webpage in Flex extension for InDesign

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 06:50:16 GMT

Hi All,

I am implementing an extension for InDesign CS6 and CC using Flash Builder 4.6, Ext Builder 2.1.

The panel reads a text file which contains the url of a webpage and renders it in an HTML control.. It is working with most urls..

But sometimes it stops loading the page midway. I get the urls from my client.

Here is the code I am using,

<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
  layout="absolute"
  creationComplete="livepreview_creationCompleteHandler(event)">

<mx:Script>
protected function livepreview_creationCompleteHandler(event:FlexEvent):void
{
  var livePreviewFile:File = File.desktopDirectory.resolvePath("LivePreviewUrl.txt");
  if(livePreviewFile.exists)
  {
       var fileStream:FileStream = new FileStream();
       fileStream.open(livePreviewFile, FileMode.READ);
       var livePreviewUrl:String = fileStream.readUTFBytes(fileStream.bytesAvailable);
       if(livePreviewUrl != "")
            livepreview.location = livePreviewUrl;
  }
  else
  {
  //TODO
  //Get some error error html url from server and use its value for location
  //livepreview.location = some error/hard coded url from server.;
  }
}
</mx:Script>

<mx:VBox height="100%" width="100%" verticalAlign="middle" horizontalAlign="center">
  <mx:HTML id="livepreview" x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%"/>
</mx:VBox>

Is it possibe that background scripts executing in the webpage might be getting blocked by Flex causing the improper load?

Any way to overcome this?

Where can I map the translate values of the tranformation matrix in a document?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 05:57:09 GMT

Hi All,

I have been looking into the transformation matrix of InDesign for a day now. Had great help from http://www.indiscripts.com/blog/public/data/coordinate-spaces-and-transformations-1/Coordi nateSpacesTransfos01_KeyConcep…

I am executing the following script to get the transformation matrix of a page-item.

var pageItem = app.activeDocument.pageItems.item(0);
mx = pageItem.transformValuesOf(CoordinateSpaces.parentCoordinates)[0]; 
alert( mx.matrixValues );

Now on executing the above I am able to understand how the 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd' values are calculated. But I do not have an understanding on the 'e', 'f' values that represent the horizontal and vertical translations respectively.

Can anyone tell me what these values represent on the InDesign document?

Thanks!

Get dimensions of a transformed shape/object

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 08:28:38 GMT

Hi All,

I am implementing an extension for InDesign CS6 using Ext Builder 2.1. The extension requires to get some page-item properties in active document and write to a file. I have been able to do most of it.

This issue is in getting bounds and coordinates of transformed page-items. I am able to get the correct bounds for simple page-items. For eg a simple page-item is,

Here is the transformed page-item,

Below is the code I am using to calculate the left, top, width and height.

var bounds:Array = pgItem.geometricBounds as Array;
  if(bounds)
  {
       if(pgItem.strokeWeight)
       {
            var stroke:Number = pgItem.strokeWeight.valueOf();

            if(pgItem.strokeAlignment == StrokeAlignment.CENTER_ALIGNMENT)
            {
                 // top
                 if(bounds[0])
                      bounds[0] -= stroke/2;
                 else
                      bounds[0] += stroke/2;

                 // left
                 if(bounds[1])
                      bounds[1] -= stroke/2;
                 else
                      bounds[1] += stroke/2;

                 bounds[2] += stroke/2;
                 bounds[3] += stroke/2;
            }
            else if(pgItem.strokeAlignment == StrokeAlignment.OUTSIDE_ALIGNMENT)
            {
                 if(bounds[0])
                      bounds[0] -= stroke;
                 else
                      bounds[0] += stroke;

                 if(bounds[1])
                      bounds[1] -= stroke;
                 else
                      bounds[1] += stroke;

                 bounds[2] += stroke;
                 bounds[3] += stroke;
            }
       }

       var left:Number = bounds[1];
       var top:Number = bounds[0];
       var width:Number = bounds[3] - bounds[1];
       var height:Number = bounds[2] - bounds[0];
 }

Can anyone tell what I am missing? I am sure I need to handle something for the transformed items.

Please guide.

Thanks!

Communicate between html extension and c++ plugin

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 06:39:12 GMT

Hi All,

I am developing a html extension for InDesign CC2014. There is a scenario where I need to communicate between the extension and C++ InDesign plugin.

I followed the instructions at http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/cs-extension-builder/pdfs/CC_Extens ion_SDK.pdf and wrote the extension part of the code. The c++ part of the code hasn't changed from the Flex versions so had no problem there.

I tried to invoke the extension from the plugin and it worked. I registered an event in the plugin to listen for and dispatched another event from the plugin. But the panel doesn't seem to listen or dispatch any event. On the c++ plugin part, the registration and dispatch error codes returned were success codes so the problem is not with the plugin.

Here is the code for the html panel,

I register the event to listen for at the time of page load.

function onLoaded() {
    var csInterface = new CSInterface();

 // Register the named event handler
  csInterface.addEventListener("com.mypluginevent.test", myEventHandler); 

}
//Create a named event handler callback function
function myEventHandler(event)
{
  alert("Event captured!");
}

// This function is called on a button click
function onClick()
{
  // Create your local CSInterface instance
  var csInterface = new CSInterface();
  var event = new CSEvent("com.myhtmlevent.test", "APPLICATION"); 

  event.data = "This is a test!";
  csInterface.dispatchEvent(event);
}

Here is the C++ part of the code where I dispatch the "com.mypluginevent.test" event.

csxs::event::Event event = {"com.mypluginevent.test",
                              csxs::event::kEventScopeApplication,
                              "myEventHandler",
                              NULL,
                              NULL};

csxs::event::EventErrorCode err = sdkPlugPlugInstance.DispatchEvent(&event);

I always get success on dispatching the event, yet the extension does not catch it.

Can anyone tell what I am doing wrong?

How to get certain applied styles using script?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 06:27:25 GMT

Hi All,

I need to know how to get certain applied styles using ID Scripting. I don't have much experience in InDesign so need some help.

Here is a screenshot with a sample text with the said styles applied and highlighted.

I need to know what texts in my document have these styles applied like All Caps, Strikethrough, Underline, Subscript and Superscript etc.

Please help.

Thanks!

Are there spaces induced in XML created using Flex?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 08:28:52 GMT

Hi All,

I am developing an extension for ID CS above using Flash Builder 4.6, Extension Builder 2.1.

My extension requires some sample output in the form of xml files. These xml files are then parsed by some software at the client's end.

The xml is created using the XML class of Flex.

The problem is that there are some spaces induced in the xml when a child is added to a node. For eg,

<root>
        <Child>
          Os enis eium es
          <Child1 some_attributes>q</fo:inline>
          <Child1 some_attributes>u</fo:inline>
          <Child1 some_attributes>a</fo:inline>
          <Child1 some_attributes>s</fo:inline>
          evelit lab ipicto et volut
          <Child1 some_attributes>user/firstname</fo:inline>
           doluptus.
        </Child>
        <Child>As dis</Child>
</root>

When I examine the above xml, I see that there are some spaces before "Os enis eium es". I was taking them for the indentation that xml uses to distinguish between parent and child. Is this xml okay?

The expected output at the client's end is coming all wrong, it contains spaces and I suspect whether the xml might have some problem.

Please guide.

Get coordinates of path of a text selection

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 12:55:48 GMT

Hi,

I want to get the coordinates of the path of the selection made on some text content. Is that possible?

Thanks!

AI CC on Win 7 crashes on plugin install

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 21 May 2014 07:33:04 GMT

Hi All,

I had been working on porting an AI plugin from CS5 to CC targetting both Win (XP - 8) and Mac (Snow Leopard - Mavericks). The installer is a zxp that places the correct versions of plugins in the appropriate folders (32-bit and 64-bit included for Windows).

Everything works fine on Mac and Win - XP as well as Win 8.

The problem is in Win 7 for AI CC, for both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. The application crashes on startup. I am not able to find the problem as this happens on the client's machine. Everything works fine at our end. I have tested in different Win 7 machines and it works in each one of them. On the other hand, the crash is reproduced in each Win 7 system the client has tested.

For more understanding, I have attached the crash log sent by the client. Please take a look.

Problem signature:

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH

Application Name: Illustrator.exe

Application Version: 17.0.0.256

Application Timestamp: 51a87a49

Fault Module Name: MY_PLUGIN.aip

Fault Module Version: 16.0.0.0

Fault Module Timestamp: 5368e3c3

Exception Code: c0000005

Exception Offset: 000000000001361f

OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48

Locale ID: 1033

Additional Information 1: b92d

Additional Information 2: b92d3cef188eb9ebf7b76aed9731bb70

Additional Information 3: 4c16

Additional Information 4: 4c16f1b468adf5e45b544171c4a66f46

Read our privacy statement online:

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=104288&clcid=0x0409

If the online privacy statement is not available, please read our privacy statement offline:

C:\Windows\system32\en-US\erofflps.txt

From the above crash log, I see that the plugin version is set as 16.0.0.0. How can I see the plugin version installed with AI CC?

Any guidance will be really appreciated, Thanks!

How to create and apply a condition to selected text?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 19 May 2014 14:07:13 GMT

Hi All,

I am new to InDesign scripting. I am using Flex 4.6, so I am using ActionScript. I want to apply conditional texts to some selected texts in my document. I understand the process manually. But am having problem doing it programmatically.

I see that there is a Condition class. I created an object of this class and tried to assign some values.

var nameCondition = new Condition();

nameCondition.indicatorMethod = ConditionIndicatorMethod.USE_UNDERLINE;

nameCondition.label = "Name"; // Couldn't understand what label stands for

nameCondition.name = "Name";

nameCondition.visible = false;

Now, when I debug, I see that the values that I assigned to nameCondition object are never assigned.

I also came across the appliedConditions method that is available in the app and doc levels. But, I am not sure how to use it.

Please help.

How to upload file to server?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 06 May 2014 07:47:26 GMT

Hi all,

I am writing a code to upload a zip file to client server. I am using Flash Builder 4.6, Extension Builder 2.1 on a Win 7 machine. My request includes login and password authentication and other params. I am sending the file contents as byte array. But, the return code I get from the server suggests that it does not receive any file. It gets null in the file parameter.

Here is my code,

var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://<url>api/plugin.php/");

request.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;

var fileStream:FileStream = new FileStream();

fileStream.open(PKG_FILE, FileMode.READ);

var byteArr:ByteArray = new ByteArray();

fileStream.readBytes(byteArr, 0, fileStream.bytesAvailable);

request.data = "login=" +

"&password=" +

MD5.hash(PASSWORD) +

"&pkg=" +

byteArr +

"&pkg_name=" +

PKG_NAME;

var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();

// Call OnSuccessfulExportif export completes

loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, OnSuccessfulExport);

// Call OnUnsuccessfulExportif export failed

loader.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, OnUnsuccessfulExport);

loader.load(request);

======================================================

private function OnSuccessfulExport(event:Event):void

{

trace(event);

}

I get a callback on OnSuccessfulExport function, but the value returned from the server in event.target.data is that the server received no file.

Am I missing something here?

Error in installing a (ZXP Bundle and hybrid) extension

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 09:03:05 GMT

Hi All,

I am developing an extension using Adobe Flash Builder 4.6, extension builder 2.1.

The extension requires creating a zxp bundle. I was able to create a zxp bundle that includes 10 zxp files. The intallation was successfull too. The problem came when I tried to make it a hybrid extension too. Somehow, when I created the combination of hybrid + zxp bundle, the resulting zxp fails to install. It gives an error message saying that the extension is not signed, and it requires the manifest file.

Is there a bug in Extension builder that we cannot create a zxp bundle and a hybrid extension? This problem occurs even when I tried including the Adobe resource libraries, like the host addapter libraries. I removed my stuff from the hybrid and just included the Adobe stuff. Still the same problem.

Can anyone tell me what is wrong here?

Thanks!

Unable to install extension on AI CC on Mac

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 09:04:29 GMT

Hi All,

I am developing an extension for AI CS6 and CC for Win and Mac. My extension is a hybrid extension. Below are the contents of my mxi file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>

<macromedia-extension id="MyExt" name="MyExt" requires-restart="true" version="3.1">

<license-agreement/>

</products>

<files>

</files>

</macromedia-extension>

The installation on my Windows 7 goes well on both the Illustrator versions and my extension and plugins are installed properly. But on my Mac machine (OS X 10.6.8), when I try to install the zxp on AI CC, the Extension Manager CC gives the error message,

"This extension cannot be installed, it requires Illustrator version in range of inclusively between 16.0 and 17.9"

Now, I don't understand this because my AI CC version is 17.1.0 and Extension Manager version is 7.1.1.32

Interestingly, the extension is installed properly without any errors on AI CS6 on the same machine. Extension Manager version is 6.0.0.412 and AI CS6 version is 16.0.0.

Please guide.

Query related to MultiArrowTool sample in AI CS6

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 13:31:49 GMT

Hi All,

I was going through the MultiArrowTool sample in the AI CS6 sdk. I came across the following in the file MultiArrowToolPlugin.cpp

#define kHeadArrowTool "$$$/MulitiArrowTool/Str/HeadArrowTool=Head Arrow Tool"

#define kTailArrowTool "$$$/MulitiArrowTool/Str/TailArrowTool=Tail Arrow Tool"

#define kBothEndsArrowTool "$$$/MulitiArrowTool/Str/BothEndsArrowTool=Both Ends Arrow Tool"

#define kStraightLineTool "$$$/MulitiArrowTool/Str/StraightLineTool=Straight Line Tool"

I did not understand the significance and meaning of the above. What does "$$$" denote? Is it some kind of path, because it looks like it. Yet, I couldn't find any path like it. And what is "Str"? I couldn't find these answers anywhere.

Note that there is a spelling mistake in the above string. "MultiArrowTool" is spelled "MulitiArrowTool".

Please clarify.

Thank you!

Panel components do not load.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 08:16:52 GMT

Hi All,

I am developing a Flex extension for InDesign CS5 above. I am using Flex 4.6, EB 2.1. The UI is simple, just contains a button. On the application complete, I just initialize an object of a class. My problem is that sometimes, the button on the panel just doesn't load. For eg., if I close the ID application without closing the panel, and then re-open the application, normally, the panel should load fine with its components. But here, the button is not visible. I have to close the panel, and then re-open it to get the button to load. There is no specific pattern. I tried finding out the problem by setting up alerts in the pre-initialize, initialize, creation complete and app complete events. But these events are not triggered.

I am in a fix. It doesn't feel right that the user should close the panel and re-open it, to get the extension to work.

Anything I can do to fix it?

Thanks.

Just noticed on repetitive testing that the problem seems to occur in ID CS6.. Any input?

Message was edited by: poortip87

How to add icons to the status bar in my extension?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 07:50:37 GMT

Hi All,

Many times I need to have some icons/buttons in the status bar of my panel. But I always got stuck implementing it and had to leave it due to time crunches. But now, I need to know how we add icons/buttons in CS Extension. Here is what I am talking about.

As you can see in the image below, this is a screenshot of the Kuler extension. The encircled part in the image shows some icons in the status bar. How can I do the same in my extension? I searched, but couldn't find a way.

Please guide.

Thanks!

Panel components do not load.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 06:49:35 GMT

Hi All,

I am developing a Flex extension for InDesign CS5 above. The UI is simple, just contains a button. On the application complete, I just initialize an object of a class. My problem is that sometimes, the button on the panel just doesn't load. For eg., if I close the ID application without closing the panel, and then re-open the application, normally, the panel should load fine with its components. But here, the button is not visible. I have to close the panel, and then re-open it to get the button to load. There is no specific pattern. I tried finding out the problem by setting up alerts in the pre-initialize, initialize, creation complete and app complete events. But these events are not triggered.

I am in a fix. It doesn't feel right that the user should close the panel and re-open it, to get the extension to work.

Anything I can do to fix it?

Thanks.

Just noticed on repetitive testing that the problem seems to occur in ID CS6 on Windows 7, 8.. Any input?

Panel fails to load on ID CS6, Win 7/8

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:04:15 GMT

Hi All,

I am developing a Flex extension for InDesign CS6 using Flash Builder 4.6, Extension Builder 2.1. The UI is simple, just contains a button. On the application complete, I just initialize an object of a class. My problem is that sometimes, the button on the panel just doesn't load. For eg., if I close the ID application without closing the panel, and then re-open the application, normally, the panel should load fine with its components. But here, the button is not visible. I have to close the panel, and then re-open it to get the button to load. There is no specific pattern. I tried finding out the problem by setting up alerts in the pre-initialize, initialize, creation complete and app complete events. But these events are not triggered.

On further testing, I found that if the panel is moved (eg. dragging the panel using the mouse), the panel loads instantly. Is there a bug in InDesign CS6, beacuse the extension loads just fine in other versions? Specifically the Win OS poses a problem. The one in Mac OS loads fine.

Anything I can do to fix it?

Thanks.

Panel components do not load.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 08:17:35 GMT

Hi All,

I am in a fix. It doesn't feel right that the user should close the panel and re-open it, to get the extension to work.

Anything I can do to fix it?

Thanks.

Just noticed on repetitive testing that the problem seems to occur in ID CS6.. Any input?

Message was edited by: poortip87

Panel fails to load on ID CS6, Win 7/8

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:32:05 GMT

Hi All,

On further testing, I found that if the panel is moved (eg. dragging the panel using the mouse), the panel loads instantly. Is there a bug in InDesign CS6, beacuse the extension loads just fine in other versions? Also, this problem occurs in Win 7 and 8. It works fine on Win XP. The one in Mac OS loads fine.

Anything I can do to fix it?

Thanks.

Panel fails to initialize on ID CS6 on Windows

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:47:38 GMT

Hi All,

I am developing a Flex extension for InDesign CS5 - CC using Flash Builder 4.6, Extension Builder 2.1. The UI is simple, just contains a button. On the application complete, I just initialize an object of a class. My problem is that sometimes, the button on the panel just doesn't load. For eg., if I close the ID application without closing the panel, and then re-open the application, normally, the panel should load fine with its components. But here, the button is not visible. I have to close the panel, and then re-open it to get the button to load. There is no specific pattern.

I added function calls to all the events below:

- preinitialize

- initialize

- creationComplete

- applicationComplete

But, I do not get any callbacks to these functions.

Below is a screenshot of the mxml file.

What is going wrong?

Please help. Its urgent.

Get paragraph style details of text layer

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 14:08:54 GMT

Hi All,

I am developing an extension for Photoshop CS6 onwards. I want to get the paragraph style and its properties of my text layer. If I apply a new style and try to get the properties, I always get the Basic Paragraph properties and not the properties of the applied style. I am unable to understand this behaviour. Here is the code I am using,

var curLayer = app.activeDocument.activeLayer;

var activeTextItem = curLayer.textItem;

if(activeTextItem.contents != "")

{

alert(activeTextItem.font);

}

I always get the font details of the Basic Paragraph style.

Am I missing something?

Get text selection and properties

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 13:36:12 GMT

Hi All,

I need to get the text selection in my active document so that I can access the properties of selected text like paragraphs, font styles, colors etc.

I wrote the following script to get text selection,

var objDoc = app.activeDocument;

var objText = app.selection[0];

This gives me objText as a Text object. When I try to access paragraphs in this text, I get the full contents of the para, not just the ones in the selection. I do not want this. I want to access properties in just the text selection.

How can I achieve this?

Apply HTML formatting to text

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 11:47:45 GMT

Hi All,

Is there any class or API in Flex that can apply HTML formatting to text. I mean suppose there is a text as follows:

This is the first para having some text in bold and italic

From the second para you can open google in the browser from the link www.google.com

This para contains text in blue color.

The following is an unordered list:

Item 1
Item 2
Item 3

Can the above text be formatted in HTML as follows,

This is the first para having some text in bold and italic

From the second para you can open google in the browser from the link <a href="http://google.com">www.google.com</a>

This para contains text in blue color.

The following is an unordered list:

<ul>

<ul>

I will prefer if I do not have to do this manually. Is there any way?

Thanks!

Save command currently not available

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 19:39:17 GMT

I have created a Photoshop plugin and it was working fine..Now suddenly I am facing an issue..On execution, I am getting an error "Save Command is currently not available". I have not changed anything in code. I am not able to trace the reason.

Earlier I thought that it is space issue and I vacated memory in my system. But no luck.

Please guide.

Thanks

How to get text justification using Action Manager?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 08:42:09 GMT

Hi All,

I have been trying get several properties of a text layer using action script in Photoshop CS6 and CC. But here I encounterd an issue which is a Photoshop bug. I see that when I create a text layer using the default values and then try to get some values like the text justification, I get an exception. I had encountered a similar issue earlier and had resolved it by getting the properties using Action Manager.

How can I get the text justification, alignment, leading, tracking values using Action Manager?

Please help.

Get paragraph style details of text layer.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:07:57 GMT

Hi All,

var curLayer = app.activeDocument.activeLayer;

var activeTextItem = curLayer.textItem;

if(activeTextItem.contents != "")

{

alert(activeTextItem.font);

}

I always get the font details of the Basic Paragraph style.

Am I missing something?

How to use RoundedRectangle class in my mxml?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 08:58:00 GMT

Hi All,

I am dveloping an extension for CS 5.5 using Flash Builder 4.6. I came across the RoundedRectangle class in the mx.geom package. I wanted to use this in my mxml. But I am unable to do so. I am using Extension Builder 3.4 SDK. The RoundedRectangle is not recognized by the compiler.

Please guide me. Am I missing something?

Create extension for CS 5.x using Extension Builder 4.5

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 12:05:33 GMT

Hi All,

I want to build an extension for CS 5.x using Extension Builder 4.5. When I build my extension using Extension Builder 4.5 and install it in CS 5.5, my extension fails to initialize. I know that Extension Builder 3.4 is recommended to build extensions for CS 5.x, but I want to be able to use spark components in my extension. I haven't been able to do this so far using Extension Builder 3.4. Is there any way I can achieve this?

Thanks!

Adobe reader plugin not working

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 12:06:01 GMT

I have an adobe acrobat plugin which was working in Acrobat 9,10 and 11 and adobe reader 9,10, and 11. I had developed it using adobe sdk 9 and then signed it to make reader enable. It was working fine. But now I am facing an issue in reader 10 and 11. It is giving an error "database connection failed" but the same plugin is working fine in acrobat 10. I am not able to understand the cause of this issue.

To trace the issue I just build the plugin using adobe acrobat 9 sdk and signed it again. The plugin got signed successfully. But when I used this plugin with reader 9 and 10 it showed the plugin menu but gave error message that "Invalid plugin detected". Adobe Reader will quit.". So this way I am not even able to trace that why it is not working with reader.

Please help.

How to create ControlBar in CSExtension?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 19:19:15 GMT

Hi All,

I have created a CSExtension for Illustrator CS 6 and CC versions. I am using Extension Builder 4.5 SDK. I want to have some components added in the control bar at the bottom of my panel. Till now I am unable to find a method to do so. In the design view, there is a "Control bar" property in the Properties panel.

By checking it the following is created in the mxml file,

<csxs:controlBarContent>

<fx:Array/>

</csxs:controlBarContent>

I tried adding button component inside the controlBarContent tag, but the extension doesn't show anything in the control bar.

What am I missing?

How to display check mark in CSXS fly-out menu?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 10:15:30 GMT

Hi All,

I am developing an extension for Illustrator CS 6 and CC versions on Win and Mac. I successfully created a fly-out menu for the extension. I need to display checked menu-items, .ie., display a check mark alongside the menu-item the user selects. Similar to the way native Flex extensions behave.

Here is a screenshot of what I want.

How can I do this? I came across this link http://cssdk.adobesites.com/sdk/2.1/docs/WebHelp/programmers_guide/customizing_the_ui.htm that talks about customizing the panel menus. But there is no mention of checked items.

Please guide.

Thanks.

Extension created for CS 5, 6 and CC versions in Flash Builder 4.6 fails to initialize

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 06:30:39 GMT

Hi All,

I am developing an extension for Illustrator CS5, 6 and CC versions. I am using Flash Builder 4.6 and Extension Builder 2.1 versions. When I create a new project, and add minimum support for CS5, I am unable to view the design view of the resulting project. I cannot understand why. If I add minimum support for CS6, then the design view works okay. What is this behaviour?

Also, I was hoping to use spark datagrid in my extension as it supports smooth scrolling. I am not able to do that as well, as the extension never initializes.

Here is the screeshot of the compiler settings:

And here is what I get, the error:

What can I do to do my work?

Unable to include Spark components for my extension for CS 5

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 10:33:18 GMT

Hi All,

I am develpoing an extension for Illustrator CS5 and I want to be able to use the Spark datagrid component. I am developing on Flash Builder 4.6. For this, the compiler sets the sdk to extension builder 3.4. I am not able to use the spark component even after including the namespace xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"

But, if I remove support for CS5 and have an extension for CS6 and above and change the compiler settings to support extension builder 4.5 sdk, then the spark components are recognised.

Why can't I include spark components for my CS5 extension?

Smooth scrolling in mx:Datagrid

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:51:42 GMT

Hi All,

I am implementing a datagrid in my extension for Illustrator CS5, 6. I want to have smooth scrolling in it as there are images that are displayed in the grid. I am using an ItemRenderer for displaying images. It has one column. I searched the net and came across this blog by Alex Harui.

This example is for List. I wanted it for datagrid. I overrode my datagrid scrollhandler and placed the code from the above example. Everything works fine except the up scroll. If I drag the scroll bar up/down, it works fine. If I scroll down by mouse clicks, it works fine. But, if I scroll up by mouse clicks, the scroll bar scrolls fine, but the grid view isn't updated. The grid view just repeats the images like in a loop. I am unable to understand.

Can anyone guide me?

Thanks!

Drag and drop to apply color to art.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 13:59:11 GMT

Hi All,

I am designing a panel for Illustrator CS6 that displays colors in a datagrid as follows,

[Color] [Color_Name]

I want to be able to apply color to any art by using the drag-n-drop from the panel to the document. Is it possible that I am able to detect the art on which the color was dropped so that I can apply the color?

Thanks!

Get interface settings of CS6 application.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 14:32:21 GMT

Hi All,

I am developing an extension for Photoshop CS6. I need to change its theme so that it matches the theme of Photoshop. I mean, if a user changes the interface settings of Photoshop from Edit->Preferences->Interface, then I need to change the theme settings for my panel too, similar to the way the native panels behave. Here is a screenshot to explain better,

I know that it is possible. Please guide me in the right direction.

Thanks!

Unable to get rgb value from cmyk

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 08:04:31 GMT

Hi,

I have been trying to get color values used in my InDesign document in both cmyk and rgb mode. I do so by converting the colorspace of each color in the document to rgb if its in cmyk and then getting the colorValue of the color. Then, I revert the colorspace back to the original one. But, I am experiencing problems in this. Here is a screenshot to explain my problem better,

As you can see from the above screenshot, when the trace(tempColor.colorValue); statement is executed, the value 0,0,100,0 is traced. When the tempColor.space = ColorSpace.RGB; is executed, the values in rgb mode can be seen in the debugger. But, as soon as the next statement is executed, the color.colorValue changes to cmyk. I am unable to get the rgb mode value.

How can I do this?

Thanks!

Dll missing issue

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 10:09:06 GMT

Hi,

I have created an automation plugin and I am using a code snippet in this plugin created by listener to use a third party plugin. When I execute that code I am getting "filechck.dll missing"error. I tried to solve this by placing the dll in plugin folder and the photosop exe folder but no use.

Then I tried to load this dll via my plugin using

HINSTANCE loadDll1 = LoadLibraryA("C:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Adobe Photoshop CS5\\Plug-ins\\Athentech\\PCPlugin\\filechck.dll");

But still I am facing this issue.

One other method that struck my mind is to initialize that plugin via my plugin so that all the dlls that are used by that third party plugin gets loaded to photoshop. But I don't know how to do this.

Can you please help me on this?

Thanks!

How to get the fitting options of an image?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 14:25:24 GMT

Hi,

I want to get the fitting options of a page-item. It can be a text-frame or an image. I searched, but found methods to set fitting options, not to get them. How can I get them?

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

Getting incorrect coordinates, width/height of page-item in actionscript.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 06:23:30 GMT

Hi,

I am developing a Flex extension for InDesign CS5. I am trying to get the coordinates and width/height of a page-item. But, I keep getting incorrect data. Please refer screenshot. The coordinates as I see in the InDesign application are 38.8, 66.02, 117.5, 160.5.

I used the geometricBounds method to get the coordinates and width/height, but I am getting 29.70, 40.26, 222.07, 178.11. Please refer the screenshot.

I read somewhere that the coordinates can change with respect to the ruler settings, i.e., it depends on Ruler per Spread, Ruler per Page or Ruler on Spine. But, I couldn't find anything related to this with respect to actionscript.

How can I get the coordinates and width/height that I see in the InDesign application through actionscript?

Thanks!

Unknown issue while applying effect using "exposure" plugin

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 12:22:20 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to execute a third party plugin called "Exposure4" from my existing automation plugin. I have done something similar before too and had no problem. However, I have encountered some problems while executing this plugin from my automation plugin. I am able to build it and when I run it doesn't give any error message. But when I debug the code it returns - 1 error code. When I execute its equivalent javascript from extendscript it runs fine.

Then I tried to run the jsx from my plugin. But it is also not working.

Please guide. Its really urgent.

I have tried hard but didn't got any clue.

How to traverse hyphenated nodes of an xml?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 12:33:40 GMT

Hi,

I have an xml structure as follows,

<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" xmlns:ucreate="http://www.xmpie.com/ucreate">

<fo:layout-master-set>

<fo:simple-page-master>

</fo:simple-page-master>

</fo:layout-master-set>

</fo:root>

Now, I need to traverse this structure. This is not possible in the usual manner like xml.fo:layout-master-set. Flex gives a compile error here. On searching I found that I could traverse to fo:layout-master-set via the namespace. As follows,

var foNm:Namespace = xml.namespace("fo");

var childNode:XMLList = xml.foNm::["layout-master-set"];

After execution, childNode holds the correct list which is for layout-master-set.

However, I need to traverse to simple-page-master node. I tried to do that in a similar manner.

var childNode:XMLList = xml.foNm::["simple-page-master"];

But in this case childNode comes up empty. How can I do this?

Please guide.

How to compress a folder and its contents?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 10:53:51 GMT

Hi,

I require a functionality to compress a folder containing some images, pdf documents, some xml files, and a resource folder containing images. How can I do that? I came across the ByteArray.compress() method but I couldn't find a way to use it.

How can I solve this?

I want to zip the folders without using any third part libraries if possible.

Thanks!

How to disable a menu-item created by CSXSInterface.setPanelMenu method?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 15:19:25 GMT

Hi,

I have created a flyout menu for my panel using the com.adobe.csxs.core.CSXSInterface.setPanelMenu(xmlMenu) method. The xmlMenu contains the following:

<Menu>

</Menu>

How can I disable a menuitem? What do I need to do for it?

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks!

Problem in signing plugin

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 18:15:41 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to sign a plugin to make it Reader enabled using signplugin.exe, but I am getting an error which says, "Can't update resource in plugin". I have followed all the steps mentioned in the SDK. Here is a screenshot of the cmd prompt.

Please guide me if I am missing something.

Thanks!

is it possible to create a link on the content of a text annotation??

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 31 May 2011 08:27:53 GMT

Is it possible to create a link on the content of a annotation??? Like the content of an annotation is some notes as well as a link...

content -

this is my first annotation(notes)

http://www.google.co.in/(link)

is it possible to create a link for the url given in the content of an annotation??? On click on the url...it should get opened...

please reply its really urgent....

Use Flex UI in a PS plugin

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 24 May 2011 10:14:20 GMT

Hello!

I am a relatively new user to Flex UI designing! Few days back, I thought of giving my PS plugins a Flex UI look! I searched the internet on some tutorials or guides, but there is very little information pertaining to that. The CS Extension Builder guide says that we can interact between Flex UI & a native application with the help of C++ PlugPlug library. There is a sample code in Illustrator SDK for the same by the name of FreeGrid (C++) & FreeGridUI(Flex UI) . But I couldn't find an equivalent in PS.

On searching some more in this regard, I found that we can use the PlugPlug.h (& .cpp) with some changes into our C++ PS plugin code. I am stuck at this stage now. How do I go about from here??

Guide me people..!!

Thanks!

Add editable text box to an annotation

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:39:41 GMT

Hi All,

I have been trying to add editable text box to my custom annotation. So far, I have been successful in adding a static text to my annotation. Here is the code for that:

// Read in the stream for the appearance key.

memset(&buf, 0, sizeof(buf));

strcat(buf, "BT /STAMPR 24 Tf 10 40 TD ( Sample Text )Tj ET q 10 w 0 1 0 RG 5 5 90 90 re S Q");

s = (ASUns32)strlen(buf);

stm = ASMemStmRdOpen(buf, s);

attributesDict = CosNewDict(cdoc, false, 5);

LengthEntry = CosNewInteger(cdoc, false, s);

CosDictPutKeyString(attributesDict, Length_KStr, LengthEntry);

cStmObj = CosNewStream(cdoc, true, stm, 0, true, attributesDict, cNullObj, s);

cStmDictObj = CosStreamDict(cStmObj);

CosDictPutKeyString(cStmDictObj, "Type", CosNewNameFromString(cdoc, false, "XObject"));

CosDictPutKeyString(cStmDictObj, "Subtype", CosNewNameFromString(cdoc, false, "Form"));

CosDictPutKeyString(cStmDictObj, "FormType", CosNewInteger(cdoc, false, 1L));

// Set up ProcSet Resources.

cProcSetObj = CosNewArray(cdoc, false, 2L);

CosArrayPut(cProcSetObj, 0L, CosNewNameFromString(cdoc, false, "PDF"));

CosArrayPut(cProcSetObj, 1L, CosNewNameFromString(cdoc, false, "Text"));

CosDictPutKeyString(cResObj, "ProcSet", cProcSetObj);

// Put Resources dictionary in XObject's stream dictionary.

CosDictPutKeyString(cStmDictObj, "Resources", cResObj);

where cStmDictObj is a cos object containing the stream's attributes dictionary, cdoc is a cos level document object, cResObj is a cos object containing the resource dictionary for XObject.

In the above code, we set the stream dictionary by invoking the CosDictPutKeyString method and pass the name of the key("Type", "Subtype"). I looked into the PDF Reference and found that these are the keys of the Form Dictionary. What can be the entry for the name key if I want to add an editable text box?

The third parameter is passed by invoking CosNewNameFromString method. Here "XObject" and "Form" are passed as arguments. What should be passed as CosObj objects(3rd parameter for CosNewNameFromString) in case of an editable text box?

I looked up the Developing Plug-ins and Applications and the PDF Reference in the SDK and looked for samples too. But, I couldn't find much help.

I want to add an editable text box to my custom annotation.

Kindly guide.

Thanks!

How to add editable text box to a custom annotation?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:12:24 GMT

Hi,

I have been trying to create a custom annotation and have been successful in that front. However, I am stuck now. I want to add an editable text box to my custom annotation and I am at a loss at how to do so. The editable text box is to be used by the user as an input text box.

Please guide or provide some sample on this. I am on an urgent deadline. Quick help will be appreciated.

Thanks!