Reply to post: Re: Hardly surprising.

World's favourite open-source PDF interpreter needs patching (again)

kens

Re: Hardly surprising.

Sorry bu no. PDF is not an extension of PostScript. PostScript is a programming language, PDF isn't. PDF doesnt' mandate error handlers in the way that PostScript does, so the attck (which depends on error handlers) simply can't work, at all.

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