Monday, May 12, 2008

Download and Install the Acrobat SDK

The full Acrobat SDK from Adobe includes documentation, samples, and API header files. Presently, only (fee-paying) ASN Developer members can download the full Acrobat 6 SDK. So, we'll download the freely available Acrobat 5 SDK instead. This free download does require that you sign up for a (free) ASN Web Account.

Visit http://partners.adobe.com/asn/acrobat/download.jsp, and download the Acrobat 5.0 Full SDK Installation. For Windows, it is a zipped-up installer named acro5sdkr4.zip.

In addition to the Acrobat SDK documentation, you should also download the latest PDF Reference from http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/pdf/specifications.jsp.

Unzip, and then run the installer. Throughout this discussion, I'll assume you installed the SDK in a directory named C:\acro5sdkr4\.

Open C:\msys\1.0\etc\fstab in a text editor and add this line (note the forward slashes):

C:/acro5sdkr4 /acro5sdkr4

Mapping Windows directories to MSYS directories like this makes life easier in MSYS. Regardless of where you installed the SDK, its location in MSYS is always /acro5sdkr4. We'll take advantage of this fact in our plug-in sample project. It expects to find the Acrobat API headers at /acro5sdkr4/PluginSupport/Headers/Headers/.

1 comments:

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Documentation and samples are always helpful as SDK pack contain these so there are really going to save user time to use it.Thanks for giving full packages download link.I am going to try this.