[AUCTeX] strange behaviour with Auctex preview

[Sivaram Neelakantan]

I just updated to the latest cvs auctex and recompiled everything.  On
the std sample2e.tex, preview works on the section, region, buffer but
not on the whole document.

Preview-LaTeX exited as expected with code 1 at Sat Sep 18 19:12:50
LaTeX: LaTeX found no preview images

So C-c C-p C-d doesn't work but C-s and C-r C-b does.

Emacs  : GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2010-05-08 on G41R2F1
Package: preview-1.284

Run buffer contents:

Running `Preview-LaTeX' on `aa' with ``pdflatex  
"\nonstopmode\nofiles\PassOptionsToPackage{active,tightpage,auctex}{preview}\AtBeginDocument{\ifx\ifPreview\undefined\RequirePackage[displaymath,floats,graphics,textmath,sections,footnotes]{preview}[2004/11/05]\fi}"
 "\input" aa.tex''
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (MiKTeX 2.8)
entering extended mode
LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, ge
rman, ngerman, german-x-2009-06-19, ngerman-x-2009-06-19, french, loaded.

No auxiliary output files.

(c:\temp\aa.tex (C:\MiKTeX2.8\tex\latex\base\article.cls
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(C:\MiKTeX2.8\tex\latex\base\size10.clo))
(C:\localtexmf\tex\latex\preview\preview.sty
(C:\localtexmf\tex\latex\preview\prtightpage.def)
(C:\localtexmf\tex\latex\preview\prauctex.def
No auxiliary output files.


(C:\localtexmf\tex\latex\preview\prauctex.cfg))
(C:\localtexmf\tex\latex\preview\prshowlabels.def))

...
Output written on aa.pdf (7 pages, 71916 bytes).
Transcript written on aa.log.

Preview-LaTeX exited as expected with code 1 at Sat Sep 18 19:16:22
LaTeX: LaTeX found no preview images


current state:
==============
(setq
 AUCTeX-version "2010-09-12"
 LaTeX-command-style '(("" "%(PDF)%(latex) %S%(PDFout)"))
 image-types '(png gif tiff jpeg xpm xbm pbm)
 preview-image-type 'jpeg
 preview-image-creators '((dvipng (open preview-gs-open 
preview-dvipng-process-setup)
                           (place preview-gs-place) (close 
preview-dvipng-close))
                          (png (open preview-gs-open) (place preview-gs-place)
                           (close preview-gs-close))
                          (jpeg (open preview-gs-open) (place preview-gs-place)
                           (close preview-gs-close))
                          (pnm (open preview-gs-open) (place preview-gs-place)
                           (close preview-gs-close))
                          (tiff (open preview-gs-open) (place preview-gs-place)
                           (close preview-gs-close))
                          )
 preview-dvipng-image-type 'png
 preview-dvipng-command "dvipng -picky -noghostscript %d -o 
\"%m/prev%%03d.png\""
 preview-pdf2dsc-command "pdf2dsc %s.pdf %m/preview.dsc"
 preview-gs-command "/usr/bin/gs"
 preview-gs-options '("-q" "-dSAFER" "-dNOPAUSE" "-DNOPLATFONTS" "-dPrinted"
                      "-dTextAlphaBits=4" "-dGraphicsAlphaBits=4")
 preview-gs-image-type-alist '((png png "-sDEVICE=png16m") (dvipng png 
"-sDEVICE=png16m")
                               (jpeg jpeg "-sDEVICE=jpeg") (pnm pbm 
"-sDEVICE=pnmraw")
                               (tiff tiff "-sDEVICE=tiff12nc"))
 preview-fast-conversion t
 preview-prefer-TeX-bb nil
 preview-dvips-command "dvips -Pwww -i -E %d -o %m/preview.000"
 preview-fast-dvips-command "dvips -Pwww %d -o %m/preview.ps"
 preview-scale-function 'preview-scale-from-face
 preview-LaTeX-command '("%`%l \"\\nonstopmode\\nofiles\\PassOptionsToPackage{"
                         ("," . preview-required-option-list)
                         
"}{preview}\\AtBeginDocument{\\ifx\\ifPreview\\undefined"
                         preview-default-preamble "\\fi}\"%' %t")
 preview-required-option-list '("active" "tightpage" "auctex"
                                (preview-preserve-counters "counters"))
 preview-preserve-counters nil
 preview-default-option-list '("displaymath" "floats" "graphics" "textmath" 
"sections"
                               "footnotes")
 preview-default-preamble '("\\RequirePackage[" ("," . 
preview-default-option-list)
                            "]{preview}[2004/11/05]")
 preview-LaTeX-command-replacements nil
 preview-dump-replacements '(preview-LaTeX-command-replacements
                             ("\\`\\([^ ]+\\)\\(\\( +-\\([^ 
\\\\\"]\\|\\\\\\.\\|\"[^\"]*\"\\)*\\)*\\)\\(.*\\)\\'" "\\1 -ini 
-interaction=nonstopmode \"&\\1\" " preview-format-name ".ini \\5")
                             )
 preview-undump-replacements '(("\\`\\([^ ]+\\) .*? \"\\\\input\" \\(.*\\)\\'"
                                "\\1 -interaction=nonstopmode \"&" 
preview-format-name "\" \\2")
                               )
 preview-auto-cache-preamble 'ask
 preview-TeX-style-dir nil
 )

Output from running `/usr/bin/gs -h':
GPL Ghostscript 8.63 (2008-08-01)
Copyright (C) 2008 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Usage: gs [switches] [file1.ps file2.ps ...]
Most frequently used switches: (you can use # in place of =)
 -dNOPAUSE           no pause after page   | -q       `quiet', fewer messages
 -g<width>x<height>  page size in pixels   | -r<res>  pixels/inch resolution
 -sDEVICE=<devname>  select device         | -dBATCH  exit after last file
 -sOutputFile=<file> select output file: - for stdout, |command for pipe,
                                         embed %d or %ld for page #
Input formats: PostScript PostScriptLevel1 PostScriptLevel2 PostScriptLevel3 PDF
Default output device: x11alpha
Available devices:
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   tiffpack tiffsep uniprint wtscmyk wtsimdi x11 x11alpha x11cmyk x11cmyk2
   x11cmyk4 x11cmyk8 x11gray2 x11gray4 x11mono x11rg16x x11rg32x xcf xes
Search path:
   . : /usr/share/ghostscript/8.63/lib :
   /usr/share/ghostscript/8.63/Resource : /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts :
   /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts : /usr/share/fonts/TTF :
   /usr/share/fonts/Type1
For more information, see /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-8.63/Use.htm.
Please report bugs to bugs.ghostscript.com.

 sivaram
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