Welcome to the Adobe Device Central Software Development Kit (2.0.0)
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This file contains the latest information for the Adobe Device Central 
SDK (2.0.0 Release). The information applies to Adobe Device Central CS4. 

It has the following sections:

1. Introduction
2. SDK content overview
3. Development environment
4. Sample plug-ins
5. Running the plug-ins

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1. Introduction
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The SDK provides information and examples for the scripting interface to Adobe 
Device Central project feature. The SDK defines a scripting interface for the 
ExtendScript language.

For this (2.0.0) release the SDK highlights the following:

- Enable developers to add additional export options to Adobe Device Central
project feature.

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2. SDK content overview
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The SDK contents include the following:

- <DC_SDK>/Documents/ADC SDK Guide.pdf: Describes the SDK and how 
  to extend the functionality of Adobe Device Central project feature.

- <DC_SDK>/Documents/ADC SDK Reference.pdf: The Scripting API reference for 
  Adobe Device Central.
  
- <DC_SDK>/Documents/JavaScript Tools Guide CS4.pdf: The Adobe JavaScript 
  reference.
  
- <DC_SDK>/Documents/adat.xsd: XML schema

- <DC_SDK>/Documents/task.xsd: XML schema

- <DC_SDK>/Sample Plugins/: Sample plug-ins and demonstration code.

- <DC_SDK>/Sample Web Service/catalog/: Sample web service application to use
  with the Sent to Web sample plug-in.

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3. Development environment
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You can use any text based editor to write your XML configuration files. For 
ExtendScript scripts we recommend the use of the ExtendScript Development 
Toolkit. See the section on The ExtendScript language in the Device Central CS4 
SDK Programmers Guide.

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4. Sample Plugins
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The SDK provides the following samples:

- <DC_SDK>/Sample Plugins/HelloWorld/: Sample code that accompanies the Getting 
  Started section of the Device Central CS4 SDK Programmers Guide.
  
- <DC_SDK>/Sample Plugins/CreateZip/: Sample plug-in that demonstrates how to 
  use the different UI components and export resources to an archive file.

- <DC_SDK>/Sample Plugins/SendToWeb/: Sample plug-in that demonstrates how to 
  export resources to a Web Service.
  
- <DC_SDK>/Sample Plugins/Metadata/: Sample plug-in that demonstrates how to 
  read and modify XMP metadata in SWF resources. 

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5. Running the plug-ins
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To run the sample code you must place the plug-in in a location
that Adobe Device Central looks in for new plug-ins. You will need to 
copy or move the sample plug-ins to this predefined location. See the section
on "Using the Device Central SDK" in the Device Central SDK Programmers Guide
for more details.

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