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Scripter :verified_flashing:<p>Sicherheitsupdate: Ghostscript über mehrere Sicherheitslücken attackierbar | heise online<br><a href="https://heise.de/-10329715" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">heise.de/-10329715</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Ghostscript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ghostscript</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Sicherheitsl%C3%BCcken" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sicherheitslücken</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://qoto.org/@barefootstache" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>barefootstache</span></a></span> maybe do some <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>markdown</span></a>.-&gt; <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaTeX</span></a> -&gt; <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GhostScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GhostScript</span></a> pipeline like <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://oxytodon.com/@fuchsiii" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fuchsiii</span></a></span> built herself?</p>
Bluelupo<p>Um eine Textdatei (ASCII) schnell und unkompliziert auf der <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Kommandozeile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kommandozeile</span></a> in ein <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/PDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PDF</span></a> umzuwandeln ist ein <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Einzeiler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Einzeiler</span></a> hier gut zu gebrauchen:</p><p>$ paps Text.txt | ps2pdf - PDFdatei.pdf</p><p>Die Pakete paps und ghostscript (enthält ps2pdf) müssen installiert sein, damit der obige Befehl funktioniert.</p><p>Deutsche Umlaute sind kein Problem, da paps UTF-8 kann.</p><p><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/paps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>paps</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/ps2pdf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ps2pdf</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/ghostscript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ghostscript</span></a></p>
Willard Goosey<p>Another step in my saga of converting my <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/XFig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>XFig</span></a> drawings into RISC OS <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/draw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>draw</span></a> files:</p><p>I tried to print one of the draw files. Printer said what file? </p><p>Much debugging later, I realized that <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/GhostScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GhostScript</span></a> (which is at least 2 separate stages inside <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Cups" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cups</span></a>), doesn't like the fonts named in the files! (ps2ps is failing silently inside the CUPS scripts)</p><p>So I took the file I was working on and manually changed all the text blocks to be a known working printable font.</p><p>And it printed!<br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/RiscOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RiscOS</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://missiletest.site/users/Ariri" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Ariri</span></a></span> unless you want custom-engineer your own <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Markdown</span></a> -&gt; <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaTeX</span></a> -&gt; <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Ghostscript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ghostscript</span></a> pipeline like <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://oxytodon.com/@fuchsiii" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fuchsiii</span></a></span> did, consider <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/MkDocs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MkDocs</span></a> as an <a href="https://www.mkdocs.org" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">easy solution to turn Markdown files</a> into sleek <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/documentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>documentation</span></a> with <a href="https://www.mkdocs.org/getting-started/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">minimal configuration needed</a>.</p><ul><li>I've set it up multiple times and by just <a href="https://www.mkdocs.org/user-guide/configuration/#docs_dir" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">changing the</a> <code>docs_dir</code> to like <code>source</code> and the <code>site_dir</code> <a href="https://www.mkdocs.org/user-guide/configuration/#site_dir" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">to</a> <code>docs</code> you can use <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GithubPages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GithubPages</span></a> for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/hosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hosting</span></a> said <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/documentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>documentation</span></a>...</li></ul><p>That should provide you with an easy way to present stuff in an intuitive way...</p><ul><li>Also proper <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/documentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>documentation</span></a> is nice and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Markdown</a> is <a href="https://www.markdownguide.org/cheat-sheet/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">very easy to write and edit</a> with <a href="https://vscodium.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Editors like</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Codium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Codium</span></a> a direct &amp; instant preview.</li></ul><p>I myself can't he assed writing <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/HTML5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HTML5</span></a> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CSS3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CSS3</span></a> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/JS6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JS6</span></a> or wahtever <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/cursed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cursed</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WebApp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebApp</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TechStack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechStack</span></a> is trendy tthese days so I use <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/MkDocs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MkDocs</span></a> all the time...</p>
Willard Goosey<p>Am I going to have to download and read the source to find out what PJL commands gpcl6 actually supports?</p><p>And you sell versions of this?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/GPCL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPCL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PJL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PJL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/GhostScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GhostScript</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/documentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>documentation</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mefi.social/@MissConstrue" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>MissConstrue</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@Lichtenbergian" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Lichtenbergian</span></a></span> Good question.</p><p>I hope <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Finale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Finale</span></a> has some means to export <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SheetMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SheetMusic</span></a> with <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SMuFL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SMuFL</span></a>-compliant <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PDF</span></a> or something similar that i.e. <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/MuseScore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MuseScore</span></a> can import.</p><ul><li>Cuz I'd <em>assume</em> that there's a way to let Finale export PDFs (if necessary via a <em>"soft printer" like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GhostScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GhostScript</span></a></em>) of sheet music and a way to import that into competing solutions...</li></ul><p>The best contacts with knowledge I'm aware of are <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://indieweb.social/@tantacrul" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>tantacrul</span></a></span> &amp; <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/DanielSpreadbury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DanielSpreadbury</span></a>, the latter one leading the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Dorico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dorico</span></a> team and being <br>on <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Twitter</span></a>...</p>
Scripter :verified_flashing:<p>Codeschmuggel-Lücke in Ghostscript wird angegriffen | heise online<br><a href="https://heise.de/-9794209" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">heise.de/-9794209</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Ghostscript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ghostscript</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Sicherheitsl%C3%BCcken" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sicherheitslücken</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Playing Chess Against Your Printer, with PostScript - Can you play chess against your printer? The answer will soon be yes, and it’s tha... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2024/03/30/playing-chess-against-your-printer-with-postscript/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2024/03/30/playin</span><span class="invisible">g-chess-against-your-printer-with-postscript/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/softwarehacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>softwarehacks</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/ghostscript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ghostscript</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/postscript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>postscript</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/printer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>printer</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/chess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chess</span></a></p>
IT News<p>This Week in Security: Apple’s 0-day, Microsoft’s Mess, and More - First up, Apple issued an emergency patch, then yanked, and re-issued it. The prob... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2023/07/14/this-week-in-security-apples-0-day-microsofts-mess-and-more/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2023/07/14/this-w</span><span class="invisible">eek-in-security-apples-0-day-microsofts-mess-and-more/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/thisweekinsecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thisweekinsecurity</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/hackadaycolumns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hackadaycolumns</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/securityhacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>securityhacks</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/ghostscript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ghostscript</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apple</span></a></p>