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Developing Plugins with .NET (2 part question)

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2007-02-22 08:55:27
smattkelly
Registered: Feb 22 2007
Posts: 2

I am currently looking for any help for the following 2 related issues:
 
1. Is it possible to develop Plugins within C#.NET and the VS2005 IDE? So far the only support for .NET in the SDK I've seen revolves strictly around creation / manipulation of PDFs, and not for developing plugins. I've managed to get the C++ examples up and running, however my C++ is fairly rusty, and it would be a huge time saver to be able to develop the plugin in C#.NET
 
2. Is the following set of steps something that could be accomplished in an Acrobat Plugin (This is a design that was given to me, not created by me):
 
The user will create custom "Links" to external documents through the plugin. The plugin will be responsible for taking metadata about the link (page number, xy of the upper/lower corners of the box they draw, referenced document information, etc...) and place it into a Database. Then, after validation occurs (checking all references to make sure they are valid), the links are then actually created in the PDF document.
 
Any / All help, including references to existing 3rd Party Components that can achieve this functionality, or that can expose methods to help develop this functionality, would be greatly appreciated
 
Thankyou

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 8, Windows
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2007-02-26 16:53:38
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leonardr
Expert
Registered: Feb 14 2006
Posts: 333
Plugins can ONLY be developed in C/C++ - managed languages need not apply. That said, however, you could write the "base" of the plugin (the part that needs to communicate with Acrobat) in C/C++ but then shim out to C# for other pieces.

Yes, you can do that with Acrobat.

Leonard

Leonard Rosenthol
PDF Standards Architect
Adobe Systems

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