[Bug-AUCTeX] Re: [AUCTeX] Can't get previews

[David Kastrup]

address@hidden writes:

> Thanks for the reply.
> Yes, the preview-latex was the one from Ralf Angeli using emacs-22, etc.
>  
> All I get in the circ.tex file are the triangles and circles - no previews.
>  
> Here's some more stuff that I got using the preview-report-bug:
> (sorry for the length).

The length is as intended by the bug reporting command, no need to
apologize.  The mailing list address from the bug reporting command
would also be as intended: please keep bug report discussions on the
bug reporting lists.  That is what they are there for.  I can't
possibly debug and know about every bug myself, in particular since I
don't even use Windows.

> Emacs  : GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>  of 2005-12-18 on NEUTRINO
> Package: 11.82
>  
> Run buffer contents:

[...]  All perfectly normal, and the parsing of the output works, too,
or you would not get "triangles and circles".

> Preview-DviPS finished at Mon Jan 09 13:51:57
> Running `Preview-Ghostscript' with ``"GSWIN32C.EXE" "-dOutputFile=(circ.prv/
> tmp23688rt/pr1-%d.png)" "-q" "-dSAFER" "-dNOPAUSE" "-DNOPLATFONTS" "-dPrinted"
> "-dTextAlphaBits=4" "-dGraphicsAlphaBits=4" "-sDEVICE=png16m"
> "-r99.568x106.206"''

Perfectly normal until this point, and then your machine appears to
lock up.  My guess is that preview-latex is waiting for the prompt
"GS>" from the Ghostscript executable and never gets it.

Could you open a shell window and call
GSWIN32C.EXE
manually?  Do you get to see a prompt?  What is the prompt like?

> Output from running `GSWIN32C.EXE -h':
> AFPL Ghostscript 8.53 (2005-10-20)

[...]

> Available devices:

[...]

>    pdfwrite pgm pgmraw pgnm pgnmraw pj pjxl pjxl300 pkmraw png16 png16m

Looks fine so far.  Ghostscript is in the PATH and has the necessary
capabilities.

So I think something must be wrong with the prompt.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum