bug#20749: 11.88; Meta Bug: Long standing preview bug with TIKZ (6 years!?)

[Tassilo Horn]

Nicolas Richard <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Nicolas,

>> Why do you think that?  AFAICS, no official has done a statement on
>> that, and the issue is just one year old.
>
> Err... yeah maybe I'm being pessimistic again.

Hehe, but yes, one year without official comment sounds like at least
nobody is especially interested in the issue.

>>> FWIW I've been running with that patch for a few months have yet to
>>> see a problem with it.
>>
>> Which one?
>
> The "correct patch". More precisely, it's :
>
> --- /tmp/pgfutil-latex-ctan.def       2015-06-08 19:36:06.890121795 +0200
> +++ 
> /usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfutil-latex.def
>     2015-06-08 19:39:09.686116394 +0200
> @@ -134,16 +134,17 @@
>  % material to get lost.
>  
>  \AtBeginDocument{
> -  address@hidden
> -    % Ok, package loaded. Swap definitions of everyshi.sty's shipout
> -    % and preview.sty's shipout:
> -    address@hidden@shipout% This is the original shipout
> -    address@hidden@address@hidden This is what preview.sty should call
> -    address@hidden@address@hidden@temp% Everyshi should now use the original 
> one
> -  }{}%    
> address@hidden
> +% Ok, package loaded. Swap definitions of everyshi.sty's shipout
> +% and preview.sty's shipout:
> +\ifPreview
> address@hidden@address@hidden is the null version of \shipout, created by 
> preview and saved by everyshi
> address@hidden@address@hidden@shipout% This is the original shipout
> address@hidden@address@hidden
> +\fi
> +}{}%
>  }

Hey, cool.  I patched my
/usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfutil-latex.def
with this corrected version, and now previews work at least in the
minimal test file I've used to reproduce the issue.

>>             And do you also save \shipout before \begin{document} and
>> restore it afterwards as indicated by the comment by Kirill Müller?
>
> I don't.

Me neither and still seems to work.

>> 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!
>
> I admit I haven't looked into it, but I'm afraid I won't be able to
> help.

Ok, no problem.

Bye,
Tassilo