Distiller, enabling file functionality

Newsgroups	comp.lang.postscript
Date	2020-07-18 01:56 -0700
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Subject	Distiller, enabling file functionality
From	jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com>

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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 

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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.

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Distiller, enabling file functionality jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2020-07-18 01:56 -0700
  Re: Distiller, enabling file functionality Ross Presser <rpresser@gmail.com> - 2020-07-20 12:41 -0700
    Re: Distiller, enabling file functionality Ross Presser <rpresser@gmail.com> - 2020-07-20 12:44 -0700
      Re: Distiller, enabling file functionality jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2020-07-21 10:29 -0700

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