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bug#20749: 11.88; Meta Bug: Long standing preview bug with TIKZ (6 years
From: |
Tassilo Horn |
Subject: |
bug#20749: 11.88; Meta Bug: Long standing preview bug with TIKZ (6 years!?) |
Date: |
Mon, 08 Jun 2015 18:34:25 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Nicolas Richard" <address@hidden> writes:
Hi Nicolas,
>>> The preview feature is not working for people that have
>>>
>>> \usepackage{tikz}
>>>
>>> and some other common stuff in their document. This is really a pity.
>>
>> Yes, I know. Unfortunately, my TeX/PostScript knowledge is far too
>> limited to do anything about it.
>>
>>> How can we actually solve this problem?
>>
>> Find someone with the right skills who knows how to fix the issue. At
>> least this issue has the benefit of being easy to reproduce, e.g., this
>> MWD will do.
>
> Isn't this https://sourceforge.net/p/pgf/bugs/316/ again ?
Oh, yes, seems so. And 315 seems also related.
> For some reason, it seems that upstream is not fixing it even though a
> patch is available.
Why do you think that? AFAICS, no official has done a statement on
that, and the issue is just one year old.
> FWIW I've been running with that patch for a few months have yet to
> see a problem with it.
Which one? And do you also save \shipout before \begin{document} and
restore it afterwards as indicated by the comment by Kirill Müller?
In any case: if there's anything that we could put into preview.dtx to
fix the issue from our side, that would be awesome. Patch welcome!
Bye,
Tassilo