Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 11.85; not handling pdflatex

[David Kastrup]

"Peter N. Saeta" <address@hidden> writes:

> Remember to cover the basics.  Including a minimal LaTeX example
> file exhibiting the problem might help.
>
> Preview worked in the previous version of Aquamacs Emacs. I believe it
> was producing png images for embedding in the buffer. I updated to
> Aquamacs, and find that preview creates a pdf file with all the
> images, but when it goes to extract the images from the file and
> insert them in the document, it appears to look in the wrong place for
> them. Perhaps there is enough information included here to help me
> troubleshoot this problem. If not, is there a more thorough
> description of the places to look somewhere? Thanks.

Stuff here is _very_ fishy.

> Emacs  : GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.7.0, NS apple-appkit-949.46)
> of 2009-08-06 on braeburn.aquamacs.org - Aquamacs Distribution 2.0preview2
> Package: 11.85
>
> Run buffer contents:
>
> Running `Preview-LaTeX' on `hw05' with ``pdflatex -ini 
> -interaction=nonstopmode
> "&pdflatex" prv_hw05.ini   "\nonstopmode\nofiles\PassOptionsToPackage
> {active,tightpage,auctex}{preview}\AtBeginDocument{\ifx\ifPreview\undefined\
> RequirePackage[displaymath,floats,graphics,textmath,sections,footnotes]
> {preview}[2004/11/05]\fi}" "\input" hw05.tex''
> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7) (INITEX)

Up to here: running pdflatex.

> ./_region_.tex:335: Preview: Snippet 99 ended.(427700+12199x1396883).
> <-><->
>      
> l.335 > 0$
>           .
> [99]
>
> Output written on _region_.pdf (99 pages, 787304 bytes).
> Transcript written on _region_.log.
>
> Preview-LaTeX exited as expected with code 1 at Wed Oct  7 20:38:58
> Running `Preview-DviPS' with ``dvips -Pwww _region_.dvi -o _region_.prv/
> tmp16658JXJ/preview.ps''

Bang: dvips is being run?  Why would that happen?  We have no dvi file.

> Parser: End of Preview snippet 1 unexpected

The parser has problems recognizing snippet 1?  Why does this happen?

> This is dvips(k) 5.97 Copyright 2008 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
> dvips: ! DVI file can't be opened.

Obviously.  There is none.

> current state:
> ==============
> (setq
> AUCTeX-version "11.85"

[...]

Pretty normal settings.

It would appear that something throws your system into DVI mode and
things go downhill from there.  Or earlier.

You don't have old versions of preview-latex or AUCTeX partly loaded?
You could try checking with

M-x list-load-path-shadows RET

-- 
David Kastrup