Hybrid extension in Adobe Illustrator - 02/05/2018 12:30 EDT

# Short Description Development of a hybrid extension for Adobe Illustrator CC 2018, compatible with Windows and Mac. The extension contains a web frontend visualising events from the native plugin. The plugin is written in C++ and triggers events such as document open/closed/switch, selection changes inside a document and add/edit/delete events of elements inside a document. It also contains a functionality 'top down' which is triggered from the Extension (analyse/manipulate PageItems). The delivered solution contains all source codes (Javascript and C++) and full documentation about the functionality and dev setup on Windows and Mac. # Functional Requirements - Extension frontend listening to plugin events, like `[login to view URL]("NativePluginEvent", event => { [login to view URL]("event: " + [login to view URL]);});` ## Events are: 1. Document opened/closed and active document changed. Event contains the full filepath 2. Selection changed inside the active document. Event contains information about the selected item. Also occurs after all items were deselected. 3. Item was added, deleted or modified. Event contains details about the item. This includes changes of the name of the item (to be seen in the Layers panel) ## Additional functionality: 1. Plugin function to analyse the size of a TextFrame element, and if there's any error about it (hidden text, missing font, ...). This function is being called from the Extension. # Acceptance Criterias - Packed extension that can be installed on Windows and Mac with the Adobe Extension Manager - Archive containing all source codes - Detailed instructions for setting up the development environment in XCode and VisualStudio 2017, and how to pack the extension for Windows and Mac after changes were made in the plugin