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Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro
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Peter Schaffter |
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Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro |
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Thu, 18 Sep 2014 09:42:23 -0400 |
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On Thu, Sep 18, 2014, Keith Marshall wrote:
> > On 17/09/14 22:22, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> > Yes. The way groff stands now, I'm uneasy relying on external tools
> > and .sy for anything but local, user-written macros. There's precedent,
> > though, in www.tmac (PIMG), and this seems to be the best solution
> > for PDF images.
>
> Do note, however, that this will compromise portability; e.g. pdfinfo is
> unlikely to be supported on MS-Windows hosts. Also, since .sy is an
> intrinsically unsafe request, any macro which relies on it *must* be
> invoked in unsafe mode, and users should rightly be wary of enabling
> that, for untrusted sources.
Are there any tools that can be used in place of pdfinfo that are
Windows safe? Sorry, I haven't done Windows since...well...ever. :)
Would an addition to the warning emitted by the macro be sufficient
to alert users to the potential dangers of -U?
--
Peter Schaffter
http://www.schaffter.ca
- [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Peter Schaffter, 2014/09/17
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Bernd Warken, 2014/09/17
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2014/09/17
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Peter Schaffter, 2014/09/17
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Keith Marshall, 2014/09/17
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2014/09/18
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro,
Peter Schaffter <=
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Deri James, 2014/09/18
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Keith Marshall, 2014/09/18
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Deri James, 2014/09/18
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Keith Marshall, 2014/09/20
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Keith Marshall, 2014/09/20
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Werner LEMBERG, 2014/09/21
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Deri James, 2014/09/21
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Ted Harding, 2014/09/21
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Tadziu Hoffmann, 2014/09/22
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Keith Marshall, 2014/09/21