pdf-plugin-tools

author
Chun Tian

PDF-PLUGIN-TOOLS - A toolkit for Acrobat® plug-in development in Common Lisp

This toolkit allows to develop Acrobat® plug-ins in Common Lisp, built by LispWorks®.

Preparing fli.lisp, etc.

Download the SDK Headers

The needed Acrobat® SDK headers can be downloaded from Acrobat Developer Home.

Extract it somewhere on your disk. Then call (prepare:prepare) after loading :prepare-pdf-plugin-tools (Of course, you must register the folder pdf-plugin-tools into your local Quicklisp environment first.)

Compatibility with Acrobat® versions

The following Acrobat® versions are confirmed working:

• Acrobat® Pro XI (Windows, x86)
• Acrobat® Pro 2017 classic track (Windows, x86)
• Acrobat® Pro 2017 classic track (macOS, x86_64)

The following Acrobat® versions are confirmed NOT working:

• Acrobat® Pro XI (macOS, 32-bit)

NOTE: The new macOS arm64 plug-ins are completely untested. The author doesn't have any M1 Mac, nor have any Acrobat® Pro DC Continuous Track versions.

Compatibility with Acrobat® SDKs

The following Acrobat® SDK versions are confirmed working:

• Acrobat® SDK 2021v3

Compatibility with LispWorks® versions

The following LispWorks® versions are confirmed working: (7.0 or later is recommended)

• LispWorks 6.0
• LispWorks 6.1
• LispWorks 7.0
• LispWorks 8.0

(NOTE: The bitness of LispWorks® must match the bitness of Acrobat® plug-ins, which in turn must match the bitness of Acrobat® versions. LispWorks® professional editions are enough, no enterprise features are needed.)

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