Refused On Mac

[wangliang1989]

I am on Mac 12.6 ARM The computer refused to run cpdf, and cannot find the "Allow anyway" button anymore in the System Preferences --> Security & Privacy --> General. Below is the screenshots. Although I am using Chinese language, I think you will agree there is no "Allow anyway" button anymore.

[johnwhitington]

Works for me, in latest MacOS Ventura the option is still there, so it has not been removed:

The process was this:

1) I downloaded and ran cpdf. It refused, bringing up a dialog box, and killing the cpdf process 2) I clicked "allow anyway" in settings 3) It failed running cpdf again, but allowed me to click "Ok" on the dialog box 4) Now it succeeds.

Can you try again?

(I have seen it suggested online that the system can be turned off with sudo spctl --master-disable but try it without doing that first.)

[wangliang1989]

I update the system today, and after the step 1 you show, I cannot find the "allow anyway" button.

[johnwhitington]

Very strange. The latest apple guidelines say it should work:

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mh40616/mac

Can you try also the "open" trick mentioned in this link?

If that doesn't work, I think you will have to do sudo spctl --master-disable.

[wangliang1989]

[johnwhitington]

After typing sudo spctl --master-disable, you then need to go back into System Settings, and you should find a new option "anywhere" or similar has appeared. After you choose that, the executable should run:

[wangliang1989]

Although it is written in Chinese, I think you can understand.

[johnwhitington]

Did you try clicking ok on the dialog box and then running cpdf again?

[wangliang1989]

click cancel?

[johnwhitington]

No, you click on Ok. It probably kills cpdf, but then you run cpdf again, and it should work...

[wangliang1989]

But there is no "OK" button. The blue arrow is "remove to trash". the green arrow is "cancel".

[johnwhitington]

Thanks. It is possible that MacOs has "quarantined" this executable - i.e marked it permanently. Can you try deleting it and re-downloading the .zip?

[wangliang1989]

[johnwhitington]

It looks like you downloaded "cpdf-binaries-2.5.1" instead of "cpdf-binaries-master". The codesigning has changed:

Change to "master" and click download again.

[wangliang1989]

Download from this link https://github.com/coherentgraphics/cpdf-binaries/raw/master/OSX-ARM/cpdf can fix this issue