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From: Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Why is my file access mode wrong
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Op zondag 2 dec 2012 17:47 CET schreef Helge Blischke:

>> I am still experimenting with postscript. I now have a script which
>> starts with:
>> /inputFile INPUT (r) file def
>>
>> I call it with:
>> ps2pdf -sINPUT=quotes.org quote.ps
>>
>> But get:
>> Error: /invalidfileaccess in --file--
>> Operand stack:
>> inputFile   (quotes.org)   (r)
>> Execution stack:
>> %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--  
>> --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--  
>> --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push  
>> 1910   1   3   %oparray_pop   1909   1   3   %oparray_pop   1893  
>> 1   3   %oparray_pop   1787   1   3   %oparray_pop  
>> --nostringval--   %errorexec_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--  
>> --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push  
>> --nostringval--
>> Dictionary stack:
>> --dict:1175/3371(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:77/200(L)--
>> Current allocation mode is local
>> Current file position is 26
>> GPL Ghostscript  9.00: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>
> the ps2pdf utility calls Ghostscript with the option "-dSAFER" which denies
> any file operations except for %stdin and %stdout.

That was the problem. I now use:
    gs -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 \
       -q \
       -dNOPAUSE \
       -dBATCH \
       -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
       -sstdout=%stderr \
       -sOutputFile=test.pdf \
       -c .setpdfwrite \
       -f test.ps

The script test.ps is example 7.7 from Thinking in Postscript. After
solving a bug, that works. For closing the file fd is used instead of
datafile. I'll notify glenn@rightbrain.com about it.

-- 
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof