Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] rel-0-9-1; Two speed issues

[Jan-Åke Larsson]

Ralf Stubner wrote:
> Jan-Åke Larsson wrote:
> > The papersize header, I can just ignore. At some point I may add an
> > option to make a red line around the "paper," but...
>
> Ok, fair enough.

Done. The CVS version now does this.

> > What format does preview-test.1 have? Apparently the inclusion is 
> > PSFILE=preview-test.1, but  it seems that gs does not handle it
> > gracefully, or needs some extra info to do the right thing.
>
> Now that you mention that ... I think this is to be expected. 
> preview-test.1 is MetaPost output, ie, very simple EPS. But all font 
> references use only the TeX name, no fonts are included. IIRC it is 
> possible to register the TeX fonts with gs so that gs can cope with 
> MetaPost output directly. But I haven't done that, since dvips and 
> pdfTeX do the right thing. So it looks natural that a direct call to gs 
> fails, whereas dvips plus gs works.

Ah, driver-specific behaviour. I've tested this and indeed, gs says 
"undefined in cmr10...". Not much I can do about this unless I'd want to 
put in full ps font inclusion into dvipng. I'd say the fallback of 
preview-latex is not so bad in this case, no?

/JÅ