[gs-commits] ghostpdl branch, master, updated. ghostpdl-9.02-982-g867fb86

Chris Liddell chrisl at ghostscript.com
Thu Mar 1 07:44:54 UTC 2012


The ghostpdl branch, master has been updated
       via  867fb8607edd04b0b1c8e8bd635347a542b0f50f (commit)
      from  90e6a864f0e4b4b0e6d6a0a1258295cf1cb3e1a6 (commit)

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commit 867fb8607edd04b0b1c8e8bd635347a542b0f50f
Author: Chris Liddell <chris.liddell at artifex.com>
Date:   Thu Mar 1 07:43:13 2012 +0000

    Bug 692602: revise script vs job confusion
    
    Slight revision to the previous change, again from jrnieder at gmail.com.
    
    CLUSTER_UNTESTED

diff --git a/gs/man/gs.1 b/gs/man/gs.1
index 9cb92c4..8c51527 100644
--- a/gs/man/gs.1
+++ b/gs/man/gs.1
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ X Windows). This may be needed if the platform fonts look undesirably
 different from the scalable fonts.
 .TP
 .B \-dSAFER
-Restricts file operations the script can perform.  Strongly recommended for
+Restricts file operations the job can perform.  Strongly recommended for
 spoolers, conversion scripts or other sensitive environments where a badly 
 written or malicious PostScript program code must be prevented from changing
 important files.
@@ -313,9 +313,10 @@ the command line is unrestricted.
 SAFER mode prevents changing the /GenericResourceDir, /FontResourceDir,
 /SystemParamsPassword, and /StartJobPassword.
 .PP
-While SAFER mode is not the default, it is the default for many wrapper jobs
-and may be the default in a subsequent release of Ghostscript.  Thus jobs or
-programs that need to open files or set restricted parameters should pass the
+While SAFER mode is not the default, it is the default for many wrapper scripts
+such as ps2pdf and may be the default in a subsequent release of Ghostscript.
+Thus when running programs that need to open files or set restricted parameters
+you should pass the
 .B \-dNOSAFER
 command line option or its synonym
 .BR \-dDELAYSAFER .


Summary of changes:
 gs/man/gs.1 |    9 +++++----
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)



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