On Thu, Sep 18, 2014, Keith Marshall wrote: > > On 17/09/14 22:22, Peter Schaffter wrote: > > Yes. The way groff stands now, I'm uneasy relying on external tools > > and .sy for anything but local, user-written macros. There's precedent, > > though, in www.tmac (PIMG), and this seems to be the best solution > > for PDF images. > > Do note, however, that this will compromise portability; e.g. pdfinfo is > unlikely to be supported on MS-Windows hosts. Also, since .sy is an > intrinsically unsafe request, any macro which relies on it *must* be > invoked in unsafe mode, and users should rightly be wary of enabling > that, for untrusted sources.
Are there any tools that can be used in place of pdfinfo that are Windows safe? Sorry, I haven't done Windows since...well...ever. :) Would an addition to the warning emitted by the macro be sufficient to alert users to the potential dangers of -U? -- Peter Schaffter http://www.schaffter.ca
