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1. Re: Adobe Pro XI or Reader XI is not loading thirdparty plug-ins
lrosenth Oct 16, 2012 4:28 AM (in response to arvindg007)We can't debug your plugin for you – we don't have the source code. You should run them in the source level debugger to see where/why it is failing.
The one reason we know that has been a problem for some developers has been that even though we have been telling folks to NOT use ADM since Acrobat/Reader 8 – some people are either explicitly or implicitly linking against it. ADM has been completely removed from Acrobat and Reader XI, so if you plugin relies on it, it can fail, and you will need to rebuild your plugin w/o this requirement.
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2. Re: Adobe Pro XI or Reader XI is not loading thirdparty plug-ins
arvindg007 Oct 16, 2012 5:53 AM (in response to lrosenth)Thanks for your reply.
Yes. My plug-in was build based on Acrobat 8 SDK which was using ADM. Now I have built with Acrobat 9 SDK which doesn’t have ADM and after that Acrobat XI start recognizing it.
Regards
Arvind
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3. Re: Adobe Pro XI or Reader XI is not loading thirdparty plug-ins
Thom Parker Oct 17, 2012 2:59 PM (in response to arvindg007)I have plug-ins I've written in the Acrobat SDKs all the way back to version 5. Some of the really old ones still work fine. However, several did not load in A-XI. None of these particular plug-ins use ADM, and they were all done with the A-6 and A-8 sdks.. I looked through the include list in PiMain.c and what do ya know? a reference to sweatpea was put in there automatically by the project wizard. All I had to do was delete it and recompile on the same SDK and they work on A-XI.
This is an issue with the old SDKs, they inserted references to ADM even when it wasn't used. So, I can now look forward to many old customers needing updates. Thanks for the business Adobe:)
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4. Re: Adobe Pro XI or Reader XI is not loading thirdparty plug-ins
lrosenth Oct 17, 2012 3:02 PM (in response to Thom Parker)Our pleasure Thom. You and Dimitri enjoy a night out .
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5. Re: Adobe Pro XI or Reader XI is not loading thirdparty plug-ins
lwhitney42 Oct 22, 2012 12:23 PM (in response to Thom Parker)I'm having the same issue, but simply removing the references hasn't helped.
I'm building using the Acrobat 6 SDK and Visual Studio .NET 2003. I opened PIMain.c and PIHeaders.c and commented out the includes for "AVSPCalls.h" and "ADMAcroSDK.h".
There was also a reference in the project settings in the "Additional Include Directories" for ADMHeaders, which I removed. I even moved the entire ADMHeaders directory from the Acrobat SDK folder just to be sure it wasn't using it.
After building and reader-enabling the plug-in, it will not show up in Adobe Reader XI running on Windows XP SP 2, or in Adobe Acrobat XI running on Windows XP SP 3.
Am I missing another ADM reference I need to remove? I apologize if this is a simple question. I inherited this project and rarely touch it, so I'm not as familiar with the entire SDK as I should be.
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6. Re: Adobe Pro XI or Reader XI is not loading thirdparty plug-ins
Dan Korn Nov 9, 2012 4:28 PM (in response to lwhitney42)I just defined PI_ACROVIEW_SWEETPEA_VERSION=0 in the preprocessor macros in my projects, and removed ADMAcroSDK.cpp, and I can build one plug-in (for each platform, Windows and Mac), using the Acrobat 8 SDK, for Acrobat 8, 9, X, and XI. I didn't have to change anything in the Acrobat 8 SDK files themselves.
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7. Re: Adobe Pro XI or Reader XI is not loading thirdparty plug-ins
aravindaravind Nov 28, 2012 10:58 PM (in response to Dan Korn)HI ,
I faced the similar issue , but after i built the plugin with acrobat X SDK , the issue is not found.
But requires information regarding .
1) Wheher the application will work with lower version of Acrobat e.g with acrobat 8 since plugin is built with x sdk and ADM reference is removed in it.
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8. Re: Adobe Pro XI or Reader XI is not loading thirdparty plug-ins
Test Screen Name Nov 29, 2012 1:39 AM (in response to aravindaravind)Removing the ADM references will do no harm in any version (unless you used ADM of course). But compiling with a newer SDK will probably lock out older versions of Acrobat. (Which makes Adobe happy.)
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9. Re: Adobe Pro XI or Reader XI is not loading thirdparty plug-ins
lrosenth Nov 29, 2012 3:32 AM (in response to aravindaravind)The version of the SDK that you use is the MINIMUM version of Acrobat that will load your plugins. So yes, if you used the Acrobat X SDK, then your plugin will NOT work with Acrobat 8 or 9.
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10. Re: Adobe Pro XI or Reader XI is not loading thirdparty plug-ins
aravindaravind Nov 29, 2012 6:03 AM (in response to lrosenth)1) acrobat 8 sdk reference added in the code to build the plugin,
2) whether acrobat 11 will support during run time eventhough ADM requirement is not needed by application.
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11. Re: Adobe Pro XI or Reader XI is not loading thirdparty plug-ins
lrosenth Nov 29, 2012 6:06 AM (in response to aravindaravind)If these are questions, I am not understanding them, sorry.
If you use the Acrobat 8 SDK, then your plugin will NOT load in Acrobat XI due to the ADM requirement. If your code doesn’t use ADM, then you can modify the SDK headers/code to not load ADM there either – though modification of the SDK in that matter is not supported (but will work).
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12. Re: Adobe Pro XI or Reader XI is not loading thirdparty plug-ins
aravindaravind Dec 4, 2012 11:37 PM (in response to lrosenth)HI ,
Kindly provide information for the following .
1) Is there any way to find the SDK version under which the plugin is built with the api?
2) When i built the plugin with Acrobat 8 SDK with ADM reference it is still working in Acrobat 11.
The functionality i am doing with the plugin is
1) Merging the pdf file
2) Thumb nail creation .
AS per the information above acrobat 8 sdk will not load in acrobat 11, then how come it is working for the above functionalities.
3) Kindly confirm whether i need to remove ADM reference eventhough it is working find for me?
Kindly do the needful.
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13. Re: Adobe Pro XI or Reader XI is not loading thirdparty plug-ins
lrosenth Dec 5, 2012 5:01 AM (in response to aravindaravind)If it’s not broken – don’t fix it!
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14. Re: Adobe Pro XI or Reader XI is not loading thirdparty plug-ins
kamilton Mar 29, 2014 6:46 AM (in response to arvindg007)hello, i have same problem, but on reader 10 - my plug doesn't work, i have loaded adobe reader XI SDK, and install visual studio app wizazrd from it, made project in MSVS 2010 with appWizard's help, compiled it success, but reader doesn't see it, in help items(third-party plugs). Can you help me? may be you send me worked vs_project
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15. Re: Adobe Pro XI or Reader XI is not loading thirdparty plug-ins
Test Screen Name Mar 29, 2014 7:20 AM (in response to kamilton)Ignore Reader for now. Do your plug-ins load in your copy of Acrobat?
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16. Re: Adobe Pro XI or Reader XI is not loading thirdparty plug-ins
kamilton Mar 29, 2014 8:57 AM (in response to Test Screen Name)i have compiled plugin.api in VS2010, and put it in c:\program files\adobe\reader 11.0\plug_ins-reader doesn't find it,
and i've tried put ready plugins from sdk-same situation
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17. Re: Adobe Pro XI or Reader XI is not loading thirdparty plug-ins
Test Screen Name Mar 29, 2014 9:07 AM (in response to kamilton)I asked you whether it was running with Acrobat NOT Reader. Perhaps you don't have Acrobat? Perhaps you don't have a Reader license for your plug-in? You will certainly need both.
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18. Re: Adobe Pro XI or Reader XI is not loading thirdparty plug-ins
Bernd Alheit Mar 29, 2014 12:09 PM (in response to kamilton)For the use with Adobe Reader read this:




