Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] preview-latex works with latex, but not with pdflatex

[Ralf Angeli]

* Søren Raunsbæk Jørgensen (2008-10-09) writes:

> I have some trouble with preview-latex when I use pdflatex. The attached 
> file dummy.tex is a minimal latex document illustrating my problem.
>
> You can preview dummy.tex as well as compile it for both latex and 
> pdflatex. (C-c C-c ; C-c C-p C-d) However in dummy.tex the option to the 
> package color is deliberately set wrong to dvips. Preview-latex will not 
> preview anything, when setting the color option right to pdftex. (C-c 
> C-p C-c C-d ; C-c C-p C-d)

I cannot reproduce this.  In my case the previews show up without a
problem when using color.sty with the pdftex option.

Here is a part of the output with some version information:

Running `Preview-LaTeX' on `dummy' with ``pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode 
"&prv_dummy" dummy.tex''
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(./dummy.tex
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh
yphenation, german, ngerman, loaded.
CUSTOMISED FORMAT. Preloaded files:
        .
 article.cls    2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
  size11.clo    2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX file (size option)
 preview.sty    2008/02/03 11.85 (AUCTeX/preview-latex)
prtightpage.def
prauctex.def
prauctex.cfg
   color.sty    2005/11/14 v1.0j Standard LaTeX Color (DPC)
   color.cfg    2007/01/18 v1.5 color configuration of teTeX/TeXLive
  pdftex.def    2007/01/08 v0.04d Graphics/color for pdfTeX

-- 
Ralf