Release 4.63.2 beta
Mark Nienberg
gmane at tippingmar.com
Fri Aug 17 02:04:32 IST 2007
Julian Field wrote:
> That's why you can edit the files I supply! Don't like something? Then
> change it.
>
> Mark Nienberg wrote:
>> 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
>>
>
> Jules
Agreed. Just warning others so when their power users of Acrobat start
complaining, they will know why.
Mark
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