Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 11.86; png images too large under latex beamer

[Ralf Angeli]

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* Jacques Jayez (2010-10-24) writes:

> Your demand to simplify the file led to some progress: I noticed I had
> a dvips declaration at the upper level:
> \documentclass[...,dvips]{beamer}.  It seems that the symptom
> disappears when I suppress the call to dvips. You can try reproduce
> the alternation with the following simplified demo.tex, first running
> preview with dvips (=> problem for me) and next without it (normal
> behavior).  I must confess that I don't remember why I put a call to
> dvips in the file in the first place ...  Anyway, I don't understand
> what kind of interaction we have here (if I'm not mistaken in
> supposing that there is an interaction at all).

In my case, executing `C-c C-p C-d' with the file opened in Emacs will
just yield "LaTeX found no preview images".  So the example does not
work here.  Perhaps you have some additional customizations.

Anyway, regarding the `dvips' option, the following text taken from the
preview-latex manual might explain some things:

,----[ (info "(preview-latex)Package options") ]
| `dvips'
|      If this option is specified as a class option or to other
|      packages, several packages pass things like page size information
|      to Dvips, or cause crop marks or draft messages written on pages.
|      This seriously hampers the usability of previews.  If this option
|      is specified, the changes will be undone if possible.
`----

-- 
Ralf