Re: [AUCTeX] Problem with preview-latex and ghostscript in suse 10

[David Kastrup]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> MrJ Man <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Running preview-latex on circ.tex is successfull, so I
>> attach both the .tex and the custom .sty source files
>> (they are in iso995-7 encoding, i.e. greek). In a
>> quick check I made, all latex files work flawlessly,
>> while Omega files throw the error, even though dvips
>> supports Omega and ignores Omega specials (I may need
>> to remind you that I can produce the .png files
>> manually, though without the background colour). The
>> error changes place occasionally; most frequently it
>> errs on the first align block.
>
> It looks to me like a bug in the Omega fonts messing up the
> PostScript stack.  That is something that preview-latex does not
> like.


It is _definitely_ a bug in the Omega fonts.  I recommend that you do
the following: use
M-x set-variable RET preview-fast-conversion RET nil RET
This will make all graphics be created in their own, single EPS file.
Then run C-c C-p C-d as this will make only those graphics fail that
contain the font(s) in question.  It will be the conveniently the case
that all other EPS files will get deleted from the temporary
directory.  Try tracking down the fonts in question as good as
possible, then send a bug report to the author of the fonts.

The next release of preview-latex will ignore such errors.  This is
actually not a good thing to do, but AUCTeX central is not the right
institution to do the debugging and take the blame for other people's
bad PostScript code.

You will be glad to hear that your example works perfectly at my site
now (I actually had to do another fix for the parsing of error
messages).

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum