Release 4.63.2 beta

Scott Silva ssilva at sgvwater.com
Wed Aug 15 23:35:54 IST 2007


Mark Nienberg spake the following on 8/15/2007 2:41 PM:
> Julian Field wrote:
> 
>> 2 Added *.fdf to the list of dangerous filenames. Opening a .fdf file can
>>   cause the loading of any file on the internet into Adobe Acrobat.
> 
> There are perfectly legitimate reasons to send email messages with fdf
> files attached.  If you use the "browser-based review" feature of
> Acrobat that allows multiple users to review and comment on a pdf file,
> then the automatically generated email invitations will have an fdf file
> attached.  The user clicks on the fdf file to open the document in
> Acrobat. The document is usually on a webdav server.  Each user's
> comments are then sent to and saved on the webdav server by the Acrobat
> program.
> 
> Blocking fdf files will effectively disable one of the key features of
> Acrobat.
> 
> Mark
> 
Since it is an option, you can disable it if you see fit.

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