Deploying Proofing Tools (CSAPI)?

Question

I have developed proofing tools for Office and successfully deployed them on Windows with a simple MSI package, which requires some fiddling in the registry and rather specially compiled DLLs.

But, Mac doesn't have a registry and uses dylib instead, so what is the way to deploy custom proofing tool packages for Office on Mac?

Answer 1

If you have an MSDN subscription with some unused support incidents, it may be worth blowing one of them asking this question. But I'd verify that those incidents can be used for Mac Office issues first. My suspicion is that no-one outside the Mac Office dev. Team could answer this question reliably, so it's really a question of trying to make a connection with them ( which is not likely to happen in here). It may even be worth firing off a feedback message with your contact details via Word help-> feedback, even though it is a one-way system. As a general observation, the amount of detailed technical information of this kind seems to be much lower than on the Windows side, but why I cannot tell you - probably money/ resources, but maybe not.

Answer 2

I see a variety of Default ACL [language] files in Applications:Microsoft Office 2011:Office. Apple provides a free installer program to developers. You could make an AppleScript to move your custom Default ACL [whateverlanguage] file to the proper place, and use the Installer application to accomplish this. I'm not sure that's all it would take, but it would seem so.

https://developer.apple.com/devcenter/mac/index.action

Answer 3

Here's an old document(1992) that could give you some pointers. **More recent documentation** (2007) does not mention the Mac.