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March 31, 2005

Acrobat javascript annoyance

You might want to disable javascript in Adobe Acrobat 7, either because you are generally paranoid, like me, or specifically paranoid, like Paul Amoroso.

The problem is that when I did this, Acrobat asked me, every time I quit it or Safari, which uses the PDF plugin, whether it could turn it back on because some file might not work without it. Here's how I fixed that.

Using lsof when the annoying dialog was up, I found that the file in question is ~/Library/Acrobat User Data/7.0/JavaScripts/glob.settings.js. I edited the file and removed the contents, which was essentially an empty list. After finding that Acrobat recreates the file contents, I locked the file and changed the permissions to read only. That does the trick. Now I don't get the complaint.

Posted by alanr at 01:20 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack