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

Am 23.02.2005 um 11:50 schrieb David Kastrup:

> 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.

For AUCTeX it's OK, and that what I widh, but why is preview-latex 
obeying this rule too? It knows that it needs a DVI file and would need 
to invoke either tex or 'pdftex --format=dvi'. That was my original 
pointer.

>
>>> 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.

Is this code meant to extract the math formula from the PDF output? I 
would assume that there's nothing to do for Ghostscript (that's the 
correct writing) when there is no DVI file that could be converted to 
PS with dvips.

--
Greetings

   Pete

The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day they 
start selling vacuum cleaners.



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