Re: rel-0-8-1; preview-latex fails with new AUCTeX setting

Peter Dyballa <[email protected]> writes:

> Am 23.02.2005 um 00:46 schrieb David Kastrup:
>
>> A look in the manual would have told you that PDFTeX is supported.
>> Please be more specific than "fails to convert".
>
> Sorry for being that brief! I thought it was obvious that pdftex made
> PDF instead of DVI ...

Well, so what?  That's how it is supposed to work.

>> What is the result of running preview-latex?
>
> PDF instead of DVI, so no job for dvipng.

Obviously.  It is a job for GhostScript.  So what?

> 	Preview-LaTeX exited abnormally with code 1 at Wed Feb 23 10:49:01
> 	Running `Preview-PDF2DSC' with ``pdf2dsc _region_.pdf
> 	_region_.prv/tmp1206NGF/preview.dsc''
> 	
> 	Preview-PDF2DSC finished at Wed Feb 23 10:49:02
>
>> Are there any PostScript error icons displayed?
>
> I'm not sure whether it's PS specific: it's a traffic sign asking to
> pay some attention.

Yes, it will probably be a "No way" icon in the next release.  Maybe
people recognize that more likely to be an error.

>> If yes, what are the corresponding error messages after clicking on
>> them?

> 	(_region_.prv/tmp1206NGF/preview.dsc)(r)file dup dup 0
> 	setfileposition  440()/SubFileDecode filter cvx exec dup dup
> 	440 setfileposition  54()/SubFileDecode filter cvx
> 	<</OutputFile(_region_.prv/tmp1206NGF/prev001.png)>>preview-doAFPL
> 	Ghostscript 8.14: **** Could not open the file  .
> 	Error: /invalidfileaccess in --.outputpage--

So it is obvious that new broken GhostScript versions are around since
the time that this worked.  I think I shall need to make the
GhostScript setup configurable to make it easier for people to cope
with this sort of crap.  It is not like we have not reported this in
the past, but still every new release of GNU GhostScript enjoys itself
breaking this in a new way.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum


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