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 ˜8.1 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
• Adobe Distiller XI Pro 11.0.23 (01/11/2017); and to
• 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.
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.
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 ˜8.1 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
• Adobe Distiller XI Pro 11.0.23 (01/11/2017); and to
• 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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