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  • Distiller, enabling file functionality

    From jdaw1@jdawiseman@gmail.com to comp.lang.postscript on Sat Jul 18 01:56:56 2020
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    The following post at Adobe Support Community might be of interest here. https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat/distiller-enabling-file-functionality/m-p/11284091
    Quoted in case the original disappears:
    Original PostScript, which includes to level 3, had functions file and writestring. These could open a file for output, and to it write strings. From Acrobat ree8.1 these were by default disabled, for understandable security reasons.
    The internets hint that such file functionality can be re-enabled, but without details that work on my OS. Please, how can this functionality be re-enabled?
    On macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, I have access to
    rCo Adobe Distiller XI Pro 11.0.23 (01/11/2017); and to
    rCo Adobe Distiller Professional 8.3.1 (30/08/2011).
    Enabling it in either would suffice; former preferred; both even better. Indeed, it could be of broader use to give a full listing encompassing other versions and other OSs.
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  • From Ross Presser@rpresser@gmail.com to comp.lang.postscript on Mon Jul 20 12:41:00 2020
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    On Saturday, July 18, 2020 at 4:56:58 AM UTC-4, jdaw1 wrote:
    The following post at Adobe Support Community might be of interest
    here. https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat/distiller-enabling-file-functionality/m-p/11284091

    Quoted in case the original disappears:


    Original PostScript, which includes to level 3, had functions file and writestring. These could open a file for output, and to it write
    strings. From Acrobat -L8.1 these were by default disabled, for understandable security reasons.

    The internets hint that such file functionality can be re-enabled, but without details that work on my OS. Please, how can this functionality
    be re-enabled?

    On macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, I have access to
    rCo Adobe Distiller XI Pro 11.0.23 (01/11/2017); and to
    rCo Adobe Distiller Professional 8.3.1 (30/08/2011).

    Enabling it in either would suffice; former preferred; both even
    better. Indeed, it could be of broader use to give a full listing encompassing other versions and other OSs.
    Have you tried launching Distiller with a -F commandline argument, as
    Don Lancaster said worked for the Windows version? https://www.tinaja.com/glib/distlang.pdf
    In Windows, the Distiller file read and write ability is restored by
    using a command line run command of...

    acrodist -F

    The read and write enabling will remain active so long as an
    executable version ofDistiller is on or under the desktop. To use, you
    simply drag and drop your Gonzoroutines into this active instance of Distiller.
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  • From Ross Presser@rpresser@gmail.com to comp.lang.postscript on Mon Jul 20 12:44:46 2020
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    On Monday, July 20, 2020 at 3:41:01 PM UTC-4, Ross Presser wrote:
    On Saturday, July 18, 2020 at 4:56:58 AM UTC-4, jdaw1 wrote:
    The following post at Adobe Support Community might be of interest
    here. https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat/distiller-enabling-file-functionality/m-p/11284091

    Quoted in case the original disappears:


    Original PostScript, which includes to level 3, had functions file and writestring. These could open a file for output, and to it write
    strings. From Acrobat -L8.1 these were by default disabled, for understandable security reasons.

    The internets hint that such file functionality can be re-enabled, but without details that work on my OS. Please, how can this functionality
    be re-enabled?

    On macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, I have access to
    rCo Adobe Distiller XI Pro 11.0.23 (01/11/2017); and to
    rCo Adobe Distiller Professional 8.3.1 (30/08/2011).

    Enabling it in either would suffice; former preferred; both even
    better. Indeed, it could be of broader use to give a full listing encompassing other versions and other OSs.

    Have you tried launching Distiller with a -F commandline argument, as
    Don Lancaster said worked for the Windows version?

    https://www.tinaja.com/glib/distlang.pdf

    In Windows, the Distiller file read and write ability is restored by
    using a command line run command of...

    acrodist -F

    The read and write enabling will remain active so long as an
    executable version ofDistiller is on or under the desktop. To use, you simply drag and drop your Gonzoroutines into this active instance of Distiller.
    Now I am less hopeful that will work; this API reference makes a big distinction between platforms. https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/Distiller9APIReference.pdf
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  • From jdaw1@jdawiseman@gmail.com to comp.lang.postscript on Tue Jul 21 10:29:31 2020
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    Slight progress.
    Adobe Distiller Professional 8.3.1: in /Users/rCa/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.distiller8.plist set AllowPSFileOps to true. Which works.
    Adobe Distiller XI Pro 11.0.23: setting the same in com.adobe.distiller11.plist (same folder) does not work. On opening Adobe Distiller XI Pro 11, it not only ignores AllowPSFileOps, it resets it back to false. :-(
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