Re: [AUCTeX] preview-latex with pdftex and a pdf2png tool

[David Reitter]

On 12 Oct 2005, at 22:55, David Kastrup wrote:

> By writing wagonloads of Elisp code and making sure that the tool does
> the right job in all circumstances, for example with bounding boxes
> and resolutions.  Here is how we integrated dvibitmap into
> preview-latex for getting around GhostScript in the DVI case as much
> as possible: Jan-Åke made sure that dvibitmap did the right job by
> looking at it, scrapping it and writing dvipng from scratch, and he
> and myself wrote wagonloads of Elisp code to integrate it into
> preview-latex (which took me an inordinately long time and worked by
> Jan-Åke giving up on me and writing something horrible himself which I
> subsequently had to help replace by something proper).

OK, I think I got the message. By the way, pdf2png works better than  
Bumgartner writes - in particular the slightly different ObjC / Cocoa  
based implementation (which still uses Quartz), but you may be right  
about bounding boxes etc.!

OK, what about another approach:

Suppose PDF is one of the image types supported by Emacs, would  
AUCTeX be able to directly use the PDFs generated with pdflatex?


On another note: mouse-1-follows-link is not respected when it comes  
to showing / hiding the images with mouse-1 instead of mouse-2. I  
think it should - I don't even have a mouse-2 (physically) on my  
laptop, nor am I used to it for anything else but context menus...