On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Robert Rohde <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:03 AM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 2009/2/20 Platonides <[email protected]>:
> >
> >> What we could do is to reject pdfs containing javascript. An unneeded
> >> feature IMHO. It has been used more as attack vector than legitimately.
> >> Do you know of a tool which could detect that?
> >> I don't think pdfinfo provides that.
> >
> >
> > Would pdf2ps -> ps2pdf do it?
>
> If such a round-trip would suppress this (and I have no idea), the
> next question would be whether it would suppress or reduce in quality
> any of the other content that we actually do care about.  In general
> such processes often have unintended consequences that make them
> undesirable.
>
> -Robert Rohde
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Not to mention the processing overhead. How efficient is pdf2ps/ps2pdf?
Are we going to slow down PDF upload/display by trying to sanitize it first?

-Chad
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