Re: rel-0-9; Preview Buffer crashes

Martin Sievers <[email protected]> writes:

> Remember to cover the basics.  Including a minimal LaTeX example
> file exhibiting the problem might help.
>
> If I try to get a preview of for example
> \documentclass{article}
>
> \begin{document}
> foo
> \end{document}
>
> via "preview Buffer" Emacs completely crashes. The statusline tells me
> to enter a masterfile, but the corresponding FileOpen-Dialog doesn't
> show up.
>
> Emacs  : GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>  of 2005-01-30 on NONIQPC
> Package: rel-0-9
>
> current state:
> ==============
>
> Output from running `gswin32c.exe -h':
> AFPL Ghostscript 8.50 (2004-12-10)
> Copyright (C) 2004 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
> Usage: gs [switches] [file1.ps file2.ps ...]
> Most frequently used switches: (you can use # in place of =)
>  -dNOPAUSE           no pause after page   | -q       `quiet', fewer
>   messages
>  -g<width>x<height>  page size in pixels   | -r<res>  pixels/inch resolution
>  -sDEVICE=<devname>  select device         | -dBATCH  exit after last file
>  -sOutputFile=<file> select output file: - for stdout, |command for pipe,
>                                          embed %d or %ld for page #
> Input formats: PostScript PostScriptLevel1 PostScriptLevel2
> PostScriptLevel3 PDF
> Default output device: display
> Available devices:
>    bbox bit bitcmyk bitrgb bj10e bj200 bjc600 bjc800 bmp16 bmp16m bmp256
>    bmp32b bmpgray bmpmono bmpsep1 bmpsep8 cdeskjet cdj550 cdjcolor cdjmono
>    declj250 deskjet devicen display djet500 djet500c eps9high eps9mid epson
>    epsonc epswrite ibmpro ijs jetp3852 jpeg jpeggray laserjet lbp8 lj250
>    ljet2p ljet3 ljet3d ljet4 ljet4d ljetplus m8510 mswindll mswinpr2 necp6
>    nullpage pbm pbmraw pcx16 pcx24b pcx256 pcxcmyk pcxgray pcxmono pdfwrite
>    pgm pgmraw pgnm pgnmraw pj pjxl pjxl300 pkmraw png16 png16m png256
>    pngalpha pnggray pngmono pnm pnmraw ppm ppmraw psdcmyk psdrgb psmono
>    pswrite pxlcolor pxlmono r4081 spotcmyk st800 stcolor t4693d2 t4693d4
>    t4693d8 tek4696 tiff12nc tiff24nc tiff32nc tiffcrle tiffg3 tiffg32d
>    tiffg4 tiffgray tifflzw tiffpack tiffsep uniprint
> Search path:
>    . ; C:\programme\gs\gs8.5\gs8.50\lib ; C:\programme\gs\gs8.5\fonts ;
>    C:\programme\gs\gs8.5\gs8.50\Resource ; c:/gs/gs8.50/lib ;
>    c:/gs/gs8.50/Resource ; c:/gs/fonts
> For more information, see c:/gs/gs8.50/doc/Use.htm.
> Report bugs to [email protected], using the form in Bug-form.htm.
>
> (setq
>  AUC-TeX-version "CVS-5.487"

Sounds more like an AUCTeX than a preview-latex problem.  Is the
behavior different if you do, say, C-c C-b LaTeX RET instead?

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum