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Re: Why do I not see the characters

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Cecil Westerhof wrote:

> Op zaterdag 9 jun 2012 16:18 CEST schreef John Deubert:
> 
>> By "library" do you mean PS code stored on your hard disk?
> 
> Yes, exactly. I do not want to copy that code every time. The program
> looks less and when I make a change …
> 
> 
>> If so, you can store the code in a .ps file and execute it from within
>> another PS program with the "run" operator:
>>
>> (myLibraryCode.ps) run
>>
>> As you can see, "run" is the PS equivalent of "#include."
>>
>> The only tricky bit is figuring out what directory on your disk epstopdf
>> considers to be its "home" directory, that is, where it will look for
>> the myLibraryCode.ps file. It may be the directory in which the epstopdf
>> executable resides; that's common, but by no means the only possibility.
>> One way to ferret this out is to make a file from within a PS program
>> and see where the file shows up on your disk. Try this:
>>
>> % ====Cut here======
>> (TestFile.txt)(w) file
>> dup (This is a test.) writestring
>> closefile
>> % ====Cut here======
>>
>> Run this program and see where the TestFile.txt file shows up; that's
>> the home directory.
> 
> That gives:
>     Error: /invalidfileaccess in --file--
>     Operand stack:
>        (TestFile.txt)   (w)
> 
> Exactly what I got before. As I understand it epstopdf does not allow
> file access for security reasons.
> 
> 
>> There's a detailed article on this in the January 2002 issue of the
>> Acumen Journal (free for the downloading here:
>> www.acumentraining.com/acumenjournal.html)
> 
> I will look at it. (And the other stuff.)
> 

Well, epstopdf calls Ghostscript with the option "-dSAFER" which denies most 
file access, especially write acdcess.

Helge

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Why do I not see the characters Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-06-09 11:30 +0200
  Re: Why do I not see the characters Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-06-09 14:04 +0200
    Re: Why do I not see the characters John Deubert <john@acumentraining.com> - 2012-06-09 07:18 -0700
      Re: Why do I not see the characters Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-06-09 19:50 +0200
        Re: Why do I not see the characters Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2012-06-09 22:24 +0200
    Re: Why do I not see the characters luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2012-06-09 10:14 -0700
      Re: Why do I not see the characters Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-06-09 22:16 +0200
        Re: Why do I not see the characters luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2012-06-09 14:16 -0700
          Re: Why do I not see the characters Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-06-10 00:15 +0200
            Re: Why do I not see the characters luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2012-06-09 15:51 -0700
    Re: Why do I not see the characters luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2012-06-09 10:24 -0700

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