Re: [tex-k] secure mode of dvips should be default
Sebastian Rahtz [EMAIL PROTECTED] tastet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: would work. It would very much fit the old Unix philosophy of small tools working together. It was/is a good philosophy, but it assumed that people were nice. As with so many other things, the minority of nasty people in the world spoil it for everyone else. No it didn't. C assumes that people are nice, and programmers omni- scient. The demans on our alertness with regard to what data we pass around to libraries is no less when we use a library than an external executable. Has the library been audited, was it written assuming that the caller does all the needed sanity checks? What _are_ the sanity checks? To be sure the system and popen calls have a notorious history, but it _is_ well known what we have to do to not make them holey. The R modes just discussed along with giving dvips/xdvi etc. extendable knowledge about file-formats should be quite good enough. IMHO. Nicolai
Re: [tex-k] secure mode of dvips should be default
Giuseppe Ghibo' writes: there is a recently-announced textrace program which goes some of URL? ur, um, I have lost it! did anyone else record it? http://freshmeat.net/projects/textrace/ Thomas
Re: [tex-k] secure mode of dvips should be default
Thomas Esser wrote: Giuseppe Ghibo' writes: there is a recently-announced textrace program which goes some of URL? ur, um, I have lost it! did anyone else record it? http://freshmeat.net/projects/textrace/ Thanks a lot. Hmmm, it seems bitmap vector tracing, which could have problems of precisions. If I remember right, METAPOST can extract outlines in type3 too, so the problem would be to convert type3 outlines to type1 and add the hints manually. MetaFOG from R. Kinch resolved the problem mathematically (http://truetex.com/tug95.zip, if I remember right there was approssimation, but could be acceptable and more precise than bitmap tracing), and Basil Malishev (BaKoMA) too. Bye. Giuseppe.
