Re: XSL Utility on macOS 12.5.1

On 9/8/22 11:34, Rodolfo M. Raya wrote:
> Hello Hussein,
> 
> I used the version from the .dmg and can confirm it has the problem.
> 
> The reason why I tried the XSL utility is because I'm updating Conversa, a free UI for ditac, and run into a problem trying to use ditac from a notarized Mac app. Running from a script instead of double-clicking the icon works, but that somehow kills the idea of using a GUI instead of the command line. 

Indeed.



> Additional testing reveal that the Conversa can read and write files on /Documents folder but only fails executing ditac there.

Thank you very much for this useful information. We'll try to fix this 
issue in the next version of XSL Utility.




> 
> Regards,
> Rodolfo
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> Maxprograms      https://www.maxprograms.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hussein Shafie <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2022 4:29 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [XFC] XSL Utility on macOS 12.5.1
> 
> On 9/7/22 18:54, [email protected] wrote:
>>
>> Tried to use XSL Utility to generate output from DITA on macOS 12.5.1
>> using Intel and M1 Macs and in both cases, it failed to convert files
>> stored in /Documents folder or its children.
> 
> Yes. This is caused by security checks introduced as of macOS Catalina 10.15.
> 
> 
> 
>>
>> It seems the embedded ditac is not entitled to process DITA files in
>> /Documents folder, but it works fine with files in my home folder.
>>
> 
> This is a well-known problem. Anyway thank you for taking the time to
> report this issue.
> 
> Have you installed the .dmg distribution or just the .zip distribution?
> 
> - If you have installed the .zip distribution, please consider
> installing the .dmg distribution (numerically signed; contains some
> permission requests in its Info.plist) because we are not 100% sure that
> this distribution still has this problem.
> 
> - If you have installed the .dmg distribution, a workaround is described
> here:
> 
> http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/known_problems.html#catalina_file_access
> 


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