> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Nov 16 07:53:33 2001
> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 10:53:31 -0500 (EST)
> From: J Scott Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Patrick Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Another way to fix the gs problem
>
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Patrick Powell wrote:
>
> > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 14 08:09:21 2001
> > > Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 11:09:18 -0500 (EST)
> > > From: J Scott Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >
> > > I found that simply replacing the gs_init.ps file as you suggested
> > > breaks a few things, ps2pdf being the most obvious. While one could
> > > individually fix these cases, another suggestion might be to sed the
> > > appropriate lines into the users existing gs_init.ps and store it in
> > > ${prefix}/share/ifhp/gs or something like that, then in ifhp.conf, put
> > > a -I${prefix}/share/ifhp/gs into the gs_converter command line.
> >
> > This only breaks things if you are running 'ps2pdf' with the -DSAFER flag.
>
> This is what the ps2pdf script does by default, at least in 7.03 which
> is what I'm running at the moment. gv also has that in its default
> configuration, and you can get crashes with anything trying to write
> to stdout, for instance (Windows PostScript being the most common
> culprit).
>
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>
Hmm... I just tried this with ps2pdf and GhostScript 7.0 and I did not
have this problem...
Also:
ps2pdf <input >output
You do not have this problem...
I suggest modifying the ps2pdf script so that it uses redirection
and then see if you have the same problem.
At the 2001 Open Source Printing Conference I discussed this issue
with some of the GhostScript support team. There were two possible
solutions:
a) Add a 'PARANOID' option which suppressed any file opens at all
This would allow all the old 'SAFER' options to be used and
would not break 'ps2pdf'.
b) When SAFER is set, allow files to be opened only in a set of 'safe' directories.
The latter would allow the use of the file open to be used to read
font and other configuration files.
Doing both would probably be good idea.
Patrick Powell Astart Technologies,
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