Adobe Bridge Developer Center

Adobe Bridge CS3 SDK

Updated May, 2007

The Bridge SDK, which is new for CS3, enables developers to integrate with and extend Bridge. This SDK shows developers how to program with the JavaScript API to Bridge, and how to develop plug-ins (external libraries) for Bridge in C/C++ and call this code from JavaScript. The external object mechanism can be used to write plug-ins for Adobe Creative Suite applications that have integrated ExtendScript, an Adobe JavaScript implementation.

The May, 2007 update contains an enhanced “JavaScript Tools Guide”, an updated “Bridge CS3 JavaScript Reference”, and sample code demonstrating use of the XMP scripting wrapper and the Adobe scripting-based XML parser, which implements a subset of the E4X standard (ECMA-357).

• Download the Bridge CS3 SDK
• Readme (TXT)

The following folders and files are contained within the Bridge SDK:

• BRIDGE-SDK/sdksamples/javascript: JavaScript code snippets and sample scripts, which exercise the scripting interface of Adobe Bridge CS3.
• BRIDGE-SDK/sdksamples/cpp: Sample project files, C/C++ source code and sample scripts for building and loading an external object, which is an external library that can be called from JavaScript within Bridge and some of the other point products in Creative Suite
• BRIDGE-SDK/docs: contains resources such as the Adobe Bridge JavaScript Guide (CS3), the Adobe Bridge JavaScript Reference (CS3), and the Adobe JavaScript Tools Guide (CS3).

Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit

The ExtendScript Toolkit (ESTK) 2.0 is a development and debugging tool for JavaScript scripts included with Adobe® CS3 Suites and applications such as Bridge, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and After Effects. ESTK 2.0 is a new and enhanced version that allows you to create, edit and debug ExtendScript (Adobe's JavaScript language) all with an updated user interface, a new text engine, and the ability to debug more than one script at a time.

The ESTK 2.0.2 update fixes some minor bugs that were in the ExtendScript Toolkit 2.0.1 release.

Download the ESTK 2.0.2

• Windows: AdobeExtendScriptToolkit2.0.2All.zip (28.6 MB)
• Macintosh: AdobeExtendScriptToolkit2.0.2All.dmg (21.6 MB)
• ExtendScript Toolkit ReadMe (PDF, 70k )
• Adobe Introduction to Scripting (PDF, 674k )
• JavaScript Tools Guide (PDF, 3.6M )

Download the ExtendScript Toolkit 1.0.3 for Macintosh or Windows.