groff
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: [Groff] devpdf U-fonts and Russian


From: m4pirkol
Subject: Re: [Groff] devpdf U-fonts and Russian
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 20:01:16 -0700

On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 18:41:38 -0400
"James K. Lowden" <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sat, 07 Oct 2017 15:17:25 +0200 (CEST)
> Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Another important issue is security.  PS, as a programming language,
> > allows far too much things.  
> 
> But PS, as a programming language, is under programmer control.  To
> treat it as though it accepts input from untrusted anonymous sources
> over the Internet is to unnecessarily bind the programmer's hands.
> One of its *strengths* is that it enables the programmer to do things
> its authors did not foresee.  
> 
> The same person who uses PS normally uses a shell.  How is access to
> the shell from within PS any more of a security hazard than access
> from without?  
> 
> --jkl
> 

Personally, I expect to frequently accept and view documents from
otherwise untrusted, anonymous sources on the Internet.  I also expect
to distribute documents to others, as an anonymous untrusted source
myself, across the Internet.

I wouldn't argue against Postscript having many uses/benefits/strengths,
but the suggestion that it can fill all of the roles that PDF is used
for seems unfounded.

 --Mike



reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]