Re: [AUCTeX] issues with preview latex / openSUSE 11.3

[Ralf Angeli]

* Ing. Dieter Jurzitza (2010-08-20) writes:

> as Mr. Kastrup signalized that he's short of time I am trying my luck here - 
> once again. Since I switched to openSUSE 11.3 preview latex does not work any 
> more, if I am using the pdf-mode (!) of latex.
>
> I get nothing but one-way road signs when trying to start preview for the 
> document. The following code-snipped may serve as an example:

The example runs fine with CVS AUCTeX on Debian/sid, which currently
includes Ghostscript 8.71.

> (who's not familiar with German language - just don't care -nothing 
> meaningful 
> inside :-)). Nevertheless I'd expect the preview of the equation to be shown. 
> As readily mentioned, what I get are one way road signs, the error message 
> stems from ghostscript. pdf2dsc is cleanly processed, from the error messages 
> I could extract the following problematic code segment:
>
> gs -dOutputFile\=\(test.prv/pr1-2.png\) -dDELAYSAFER -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH \
> -DNOPLATFONTS -dPrinted -dTextAlphaBits\=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits\=4 \
> -sDEVICE\=png16m -r108.085x108.17 \
> -c \<\</PermitFileReading\[\(test.prv/preview.dsc\)\]\>\>\ setuserparams\ 
> .locksafe
>
> (I deleted the path-elements with tmpXXXXX for the sake of simplicity)
>
> this code is generated by preview.el (or preview.elc, respectively), round 
> about line 1075.

The string "PermitFileReading" does not appear in the vanilla
distribution of AUCTeX 11.86.  Perhaps it was patched by SuSE?

-- 
Ralf