Re: [AUCTeX] auctex 11.87.2 no bounding box error

[Tassilo Horn]

Jiangzhi Chen <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Jiangzhi,

> I am using auctex with emacs 24.3. After I upgraded auctex to 11.87.2,
> I often got the error when I preview the tex file:
>
> Ghostscript filter: No bounding box
>
> After some hunting, I found the root of error to be the length of my tex file
> name. For example, I have a sample tex file called sample.tex:
> \title{This is the title}
> \author{Author One \\ Author Two}
> \date{29 October 2013}
>
> \begin{document}
> \maketitle
>
> This is the content of this document.
>
> This is the 2nd paragraph.
> Here is an inline formula:
> $   V = \frac{4 \pi r^3}{3}  $.
> And appearing immediately below
> is a displayed formula:
> $$  V = \frac{4 \pi r^3}{3}  $$
> \end{document}
> This file can be previewed correctly. However, if I rename the file to
> samplesamplesample.tex, previewing the file leads to "no bounding box" error.

I've just tried it with the contents above (I just added a
\documentclass{article}), and I can preview the file no matter if it's
named sample.tex or samplesamplesample.tex.

When turning on preview, have a look at the log buffer (C-c C-l) to see
where the errors come from.

Bye,
Tassilo