Re: [AUCTeX] Re: Problems with preview-latex from AUCTeX-11.84

[Tassilo Horn]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

>> Yes, pdflatex doesn't complain and the resulting pdf works fine with
>> kpdf or doc-view.
>
> Does it work with Ghostscript?  Ghostview or one of the other
> Ghostscript-based PDF viewers?

I tried kghostview and it couldn't open it:

Error: /typecheck in --known--
Operand stack:
   2   (\()   ()   --dict:5/5(L)--   --nostringval--
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   
--nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1905   1   3   %oparray_pop   
1904   1   3   %oparray_pop   1888   1   3   %oparray_pop   1771   1   3   
%oparray_pop   --nostringval--   %errorexec_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   3   1 
  33   --nostringval--   %for_pos_int_continue   --nostringval--   
--nostringval--   1911   5   6   %oparray_pop
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1152/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:2/20(G)--   --dict:75/200(L)--   
--dict:106/127(ro)(G)--   --dict:274/300(ro)(G)--   --dict:31/50(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 2
Current file position is 8071
GPL Ghostscript 8.60: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

> Can you run ps2pdf on it (in spite of its name, it accepts PDF files
> as input)?

This runs without problems and I can open the resulting pdf with
kghostview.  But the thumbnails it normally shows don't appear, neither
does the titlepage and some pages error with similar errors like the one
above.

> Or pdf2dsc?

Same error as above.

> The question is whether the normal output is hosed, or whether it is
> just the preview-controlled output that is affected.

It seems the normal output is broken, but kpdf (poppler) and the gs-png
export are too forgiving to break on it.

Bye,
Tassilo