Re: CVS-1.224; pdftex-mode not displaying previews

"Björn Pedersen" <[email protected]> writes:

> Remember to cover the basics.  Including a minimal LaTeX example
> file exhibiting the problem might help.
>
> This is an update to previous reports. I have found the reason for my problems
> in getting previews in pdftexlatex-mode:
> teh file preview.dsc generated by pdf2dsc starts like: 
> %%BeginSetup
> (circ.pdf) (r) file { DELAYSAFER { .setsafe } if } stopped pop
>  pdfopen begin
> %%EndSetup
> and  is located in the preview temp dir
>
> runnig gs on this file results in the following  error:
>
> AFPL Ghostscript 8.14 (2004-02-20)
> Copyright (C) 2004 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
> Error: /undefinedfilename in --file--
> Operand stack:
>    (circ.pdf)   (r)
>
> manually changing preview.dsc to contain:
>
> %%BeginSetup
> (../../circ.pdf) (r) file { DELAYSAFER { .setsafe } if } stopped pop
>  pdfopen begin
> %%EndSetup
>
> and running ps-execute-buffer generates the preview images. 
>
> So, solutions to the problem: generate the preview-pdf in the temp
> dir (or move it there after generation...

Uh, no.  GhostScript _is_ run with the current directory set to the
original directory, so `circ.pdf' is exactly the right file name to
use.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum


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