[Bug-AUCTeX] Re : problems with preview, how it behaves on my system

[jfbu]

forgot to say preview-image-type is set to "dvipng"

----- jfbu <address@hidden> wrote :
> I have noticed that a number of people have
> reported problems here over the last year or so
> with getting preview to work. For many years
> I did not upgrade my system and it worked fine
> (I used exclusively dvi output)
> 
> Here is my current experience after moving to
> Mac OS X 10.8.1, with
> Emacs 24.2 (Mac Port),  TL 2012 installed,
> and the latest version of auctex 11.86 I could fine. 
> (which includes a patch related to the way gs is
> called). I am using the
> normal latex engine for dvi and pdflatex for pdf.
> 
> (dvi output): works fine if previews are generated
> "for buffer", also when the file is part of 
> a multi-file project. Does not work when
> previews are generated "for document": in that
> case a multipage dvi file is created will all
> images, one per page, but next step in processing fails.
> 
> (pdf output): fails as above with "for document", a
> pdf file is created with one page per image, but next
> step seems to fail. Works "for buffer" but only
> for a single file document. If from a project with
> a master-file it fails, also when asking previews 
> "for buffer", contrarily to the dvi output case.
> 
> I did not try "previews for region", or "at point".
> 
> Everything else in AUCTeX works fine as far as I can tell, 
> including direct/reverse search with xdvi under XQuartz and Skim.app 
> for pdf. I applied one or two advices found on the net,
> including one on AUCTeX's way of
> determining if source-specials or synctex should be used,
> because I use sometimes dvi with xdvi, sometimes pdf with Skim.
> (or pdf with Okular 0.10.5 on Fedora 13 distribution at my office) 
> 
> Just in passing I mention that to get xdvi (from TL2012/Mac Intel 64bits) 
> to work when launched from Emacs.app 
> I had to add a -unique option to the way it is called when 
> the source-specials are *not* activated. 
> 
> Of course I will post logs of (more or less) minimal examples
> if asked.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> JF B.
>