[pdftex] Security settings and pdftex

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Tue May 7 10:39:45 CEST 2002


At 10:14 AM 5/6/2002 -0700, Paulo Ney de Souza wrote:
>"It bloats the code" ? According to the Webster dictionary "bloat" means
>"to cause to swell up or inflate" and couting the size you can see that
>this is indeed a very SMALL piece of pdftex.
>
>You must been using the word "bloat" with some other meaning ...

maybe martin meant that it kind of bloats the source code; chantes and 
extensions go into so called change files, and, given the way tex is 
written, some extensions (like encryption) result in all kind of adaptions 
(overloading) all over the place, which makes them hard to proof right and 
maintain.

Hans
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