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Tools and documentation for building Creative Cloud app extensions with CEP
https://www.adobe.io/apis/creativecloud/cep.html
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Getting started #127

Closed sdaitzman closed 7 years ago

sdaitzman commented 7 years ago

Is there an introductory guide anywhere on this repository? Or perhaps elsewhere?

bbb999 commented 7 years ago

Any guide generic enough to include all CEP hosts, would be nearly meaningless. :)

For which applications would you like to develop extensions?

sdaitzman commented 7 years ago

@bbb999 thank you for your prompt response. I am writing a script for Illustrator CC 2017. Perhaps I misunderstood what CEP does exactly? Basically, I want to write a script that I can execute in Illustrator and that uses some modules from npm. I was told that CEP would allow me to do so. Is this the case? Thanks again!

bbb999 commented 7 years ago

CEP = Common Extensibility Platform, or "how Adobe apps host web pages in their UI, and gives them scripting super powers".

Here's our flagship "CEP HTML Test Panel", which shows off all the fun stuff you can do from within a panel:

https://github.com/Adobe-CEP/Samples/tree/master/CEP_HTML_Test_Extension

I don't know which among our sample panels most closely resembles what your script is trying to do; if possible, I'd start from a very, very simple example (Trello and Twitter are good), clone that, then 'graft' your Illustrator script execution onto it.

Potentially helpful: I made a screen video showing how to debug panels at both the JavaScript and ExtendScript levels:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lwo8jg0klxkq91s/walkthru.mp4

[If you were integrating with our video apps, I could be of more direct assistance...]

sdaitzman commented 7 years ago

@bbb999 I think I misunderstood what CEP does. I was led to understand it as a successor to the ExtendScript system for making extensions. If all I want to do is create a script, in JS, that manipulates the selection in Illustrator when run, is this the right tool?

Silly-V commented 7 years ago

The development educational course written by Davide Barranca is an invaluable resource: https://www.davidebarranca.com/2016/03/adobe-photoshop-html-panels-development-course-released/

What kind of node npm module things are you planning on using? Could some of it be just possible in regular .jsx extendscript? It would be infinitely easier..

sdaitzman commented 7 years ago

@Silly-V I am going to try just using extendscript. I will come back and look through that educational course if I can't get around it. Thank you for all of your help!

bbb999 commented 7 years ago

CEP isn't a replacement; it's an improvement / enablement.

CEP hosts web pages, backed by JavaScript, in our apps.

CEP panels are the best place from which to execute ExtendScript, which is what our apps' scripting engines use.

Silly-V commented 7 years ago

You can join the group of AI junkies at the Illustrator scripting forum, to see a lot of what's possible/impossible. Regarding AI, the scripting commands are more limited compared to Photoshop and most of all, Indesign. To make up for lack of general documentation, the forums have served as a knowledge repository for years and years! We'd be glad to assist. Here it is: https://forums.adobe.com/community/illustrator/illustrator_scripting