Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I don't think the "restricted \write18 enabled" mode permits *arbitrary* > shell commands. This is different from adding -shell-escape, rather the > default option is -shell-restricted. In this mode, only those commands > listed by "kpsewhich -var-value=shell_escape_commands" are allowed. Ah, OK, I stand corrected on that, thanks. It's still worth turning off, but it wasn't quite as bad as I'd feared. Now that I've thoroughly showed my ignorance I think I'll just go get busy with something else..:) Thanks, jon