Re: Asking help for preview-latex

Ken Sharp <[email protected]> Sat, 22 Jun 2019 15:15:28 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.printing.ghostscript.devel,gmane.emacs.auctex.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 21:35 22/06/2019 +0900, Ikumi Keita wrote:


>Thank you for your detailed explanation.  I realize it is almost
>hopeless to achive our original intent by just replacing the existing
>Postscript code.

Don't give up entirely yet, we are still discussing this internally, but I 
wanted to be realistic in my reply.


>   I'm a bit surprised since adjusting the background
>color of the generated image to that of emacs still works under gs-9.27.

That's because you are leveraging the BeginPage functionality of 
PostScript. Its difficult to explain why in detail but as long as the PDF 
interpreter is written in PostScript that is unlikely to change.


>Perhaps it might be a loophole left in gs-9.27 and we possibly have to
>be prepared that the future Ghostscript disables this feature as well.

Its possible, I can't deny it, we are always changing the code to fix bugs 
and add features.


                 Regards,

                     Ken Sharp