Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 11.86; pngs not being generated by preview-latex

[Stefan Husmann]

Am 11.10.2010 20:41, schrieb Ralf Angeli:
> [Quoting repaired]
> 
> * Clark Taylor (2010-10-11) writes:
> 
>> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Clark Taylor <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> My error log follows (from the middle mouse button).  Thank you for your 
>>> help!
>>>
>>> "GSWIN32C.EXE" "-dOutputFile=(_region_.prv/tmp3712kvc/pr1-1.png)" "-q"
>>> "-dSAFER" "-dNOPAUSE" "-DNOPLATFONTS" "-dPrinted" "-dTextAlphaBits=4"
>>> "-dGraphicsAlphaBits=4" "-sDEVICE=png16m" "-r70.4906x70.6156"
>>> GS>{DELAYSAFER{.setsafe}if}stopped pop/.preview-BP
>>> currentpagedevice/BeginPage get dup null eq{pop{pop}bind}if
>>> def<</BeginPage{currentpagedevice/PageSize get dup 0 get 1 ne exch 1
>>> get 1 ne or{.preview-BP }{pop}ifelse}bind/PageSize[1
>>> 1]>>setpagedevice/preview-do{[count 3 roll save]3 1 roll dup length 0
>>> eq{pop}{setpagedevice}{ifelse .runandhide}stopped{handleerror quit}if
>>> aload pop restore}bind def
>>> [(_region_.prv/tmp3712kvc/preview.dsc)(r)file]aload exch dup 0
>>> setfileposition 520()/SubFileDecode filter cvx .runandhide aload pop
>>> dup dup 623 setfileposition 50()/SubFileDecode filter
>>> cvx<<>>preview-do
>>> Error: /invalidfileaccess in --file--
> 
> The /invalidfileaccess error message seems to suggest that something
> with respect to file handling has changed in Ghostscript.  (I haven't
> checked the Ghostscript documentation with respect to that yet.)
> 
>> I just uninstalled ghostscript 9.00 and installed 8.71.  Everything
>> now runs nicely.
>>
>> There must be something screwy with the interface between preview and
>> 9.00.  Just so you know, when I ran things manually, 9.00 generated
>> the png's just fine.
> 
> We've had a bug report in August which was related to file handling of
> Ghostscript: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.auctex.general/3837
> 
> It looked like the openSUSE maintainers added a /PermitFileReading
> statement to the gs call.  Perhaps we need to add such a statement as
> well in AUCTeX proper?  I'll check this once Ghostscript 9.00 hits
> Debian/sid.  If you are interested in acting as a guinea pig I can also
> check the Ghostscript documentation sooner and try to come up with a
> patch without reproducing the error myself.
> 

Hello,

let me be your guinea pig, too. I am using Arch Linux, and ghostscript 9.0 
will probably hit the stable repostories very soon. It is already in the 
testing repo.
I can reproduce the error using your \mu-minimal example.

Regards Stefan