Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 11.83; pst-pdf disables preview-latex

[Patrick Drechsler]

David Kastrup wrote on 23 Jun 2006 07:04:03 MET:

> Patrick Drechsler <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I have reported this before[1]. Using the package pst-pdf
>> displays no image when typing `C-c C-p C-b'. Excluding the
>> pst-pdf package works fine (image is created). Since both
>> preview-latex and pst-pdf use preview.sty I can see which
>> direction trouble is coming from. Searching the preview-latex
>> manual did reveal any further hints.
>
> pst-pdf is not in TeXlive yet which makes testing rather
> inconvenient.  

I was not aware of this restriction. The package can be found on
CTAN[1] (but you are probably aware of this) and is also included
in MikTeX. 

> No idea what it is doing or how to fix it.

If "what it is doing" refers to what the package pst-pdf.sty is
doing, here is the content of the README file:

,----[ pst-pdf.sty ]
| A package to integrate PostScript code into a PDF output.  Load
| the testfile test.tex and run it with the shell script.
| 
| ps4pdf test
| 
| (without extension) it produces the output file test.pdf Be
| sure that the script is executable.
| 
| pst-pdf.sty -> $TEXMF-LOCAL
| ps4pdf      -> /usr/local/bin
|                the shell script for running latex->dvips->ps2pdf->pdflatex
| 
| without a shell script, run
| 
| latex <file>
| dvips -Ppdf -o <file>-pics.ps <file>.dvi
| ps2pdf -dAutoRotatePages=/None <file>-pics.ps <file>-pics.pdf
| pdflatex <file>
`----


Is there anything a non-Lisp/TeX-programmer like myself can do to
help?

Regards

Patrick

[1]
<URL:http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-pdf/>

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