[tex-live] TeXLive Online Service?

[Patrice Dumas]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 08:53:10AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> Folks,
> 
> 
> does someone offers a `TeXLive Online Service'?
> 
> I don't know whether this is the right name, but the idea is that you
> submit a .tex file, and you receive a .pdf file, and TeXLive is used
> for processing.
> 
> Is such a service available at all, with or without TeXLive?  A quick
> search with google doesn't bring up anything.

I would personally be very worried about security implications of this
setup. Isn't it possible to run any command when processing a document?
Of course the processing could be done in a special sandbox cleaned after
use, but still...

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Pat