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Dominik Schöler
October 31, 2018Software engineer at makandra GmbH

Ubuntu has decided to disable PDF processing Show archive.org snapshot because ImageMagick and the underlying Ghostscript had several security issues.

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When your Ghostscript is up to date (and receiving updates regularly), you can safely reactivate PDF processing on your computer like this:

  1. Open /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml
    • For older versions of Ubuntu (or possibly ImageMagick), the path is /etc/ImageMagick/policy.xml
  2. Remove/Comment lines after <!-- disable ghostscript format types -->

If you need it enabled for an app server, ask your operations team to do that for you.

Posted by Dominik Schöler to makandra dev (2018-10-31 12:56)