Anyone on TeX Live 2021 pretest ? (to confirm a regression for ja LilyPond)

[Kornel Benko]

Am Sat, 22 May 2021 16:51:43 +0200
schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller <spitz at lyx.org>:

> Am Samstag, dem 22.05.2021 um 16:33 +0200 schrieb Kornel Benko:
> > Fine. But how to explain that running with 2020-dvipdfmx compiles on
> > TL20, but the same dvipdfmx (copied from TL20) fails if using TL20 env.  
> 
> Stricter security measures have been introduced with TL 21 [1].
> 
> The produced DVI is fine, but dvipdfmx does not produce a PDF due to
> access restrictions (when attempting to access fonts).
> 
> When processing the DVI with
> 
> dvipdfmx -i dvipdfmx-unsafe.cfg
> 
> it works, i.e., after changing the converter DVI > PDF (dvipdfm) to
> dvipdfmx -i dvipdfmx-unsafe.cfg -o $$o $$i
> 
> dvipdfmx-unsafe.cfg makes dvipdfmx call gs (rungs) with -dNOSAFER
> rather than with -DSAFER (as in the default dvipdfmx.cfg of TL21).

Thanks.

> However, this change should definitely only be applied to trustworthy
> files, so changing the converter generally is certainly not such a good
> idea.
> 
> Jürgen
> 
> [1] The explicit call of -DSAFER has been introduced for TL 21:
> https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live-commits/2021-March/017216.html
> 

That means that we could use this setting for our tests.

	Kornel
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