Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] preview-1.287; preview latex fails part way through document

[Joseph Mingrone]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> Joseph Mingrone <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I believe the problem started after upgrading to texlive-2014.  Now,
>> part way through the document, the previewing fails and I see the
>> "no entry" error symbols on all remaining LaTeX code.  Also, some code
>> simply stays as code instead of being rendered.
>>
>> I've noticed two curious things.  First, the errors begin on a new
>> paragraph and sometimes, if I move that first paragraph with the errors
>> up and join it with the previous paragraph the errors in the paragraph
>> that moved up go away.  Second, if have \usepackage{tikz} in the
>> preamble, the errors are more frequent.
>
> "More frequent" or "present at all"?

It might be the latter.  I was confident I still had problems after
commenting out the tikz code, but I haven't had any problems in the past
few days.  If that changes, I'll send an update.

>> When I mouse click on one of the errors I see
>>
>> -----------------------------
>> gs -dOutputFile\=\(bootstrap_paper.prv/tmp31288PUv/pr11-1.png\) -q
>> -dDELAYSAFER -dNOPAUSE -DNOPLATFONTS -dPrinted -dTextAlphaBits\=4
>> -dGraphicsAlphaBits\=4 -sDEVICE\=png16m -r115.334x115.313
>> GS>{<</PermitFileReading[(bootstrap_paper.prv/tmp31288PUv/preview.ps)]>>
>> setuserparams .locksafe} stopped pop {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 0 0 0 setrgbcolor clippath fill 1 1 1
>> setrgbcolor}{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
>> [(bootstrap_paper.prv/tmp31288PUv/preview.ps)(r)file]aload exch dup 0
>> setfileposition 369084()/SubFileDecode filter cvx .runandhide aload pop dup
>> dup 373557 setfileposition 136()/SubFileDecode filter cvx<<>>preview-do
>> Error: /typecheck in --div--
>> Operand stack:
>>    10   10   0.0   TeXcolorgray   65781.8
>
> Something messes up the PostScript stack.  tikz would be a likely
> culprit, yes, since most other LaTeX packages don't meddle with
> PostScript.

Good to know.  Thanks.