Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 11.86; preview confused by beamer+xelatex

[Giacomo Boffi]

Ralf Angeli writes:

 > It looks like the document class or some package sets \pdfoutput.
 > There is even a warning about this by the ifpdf package in the log.
 > If \pdfoutput is set, preview.sty assumes that PDFLaTeX is used.
 > It then checks the value of \pdfoutput in order to find out if PDF
 > output is produced.  In your example the value is 0, so preview.sty
 > comes to the conclusion that DVI output is produced.  And that's
 > why preview-latex then calls dvips.
 > 
 > I didn't look by whom \pdfoutput is set to 0, but this looks a bit
 > fishy.  Do you happen to know where and why this is done?

i don't, sorry

 > In any case, either the document class or some package loads
 > hyperref and recent versions of it are incompatible with
 > preview.sty.  So even if we can get rid of the \pdfoutput problem,
 > you won't have much joy with this combination.

my debian has texlive 2009, so newest releases of hyperref shouldn't
cast too dark a shadow on my texing...

thank you Ralf,
                                                                gb

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