Re: [AUCTeX] Question on Preview

[Ralf Angeli]

* Ing. Dieter Jurzitza (2010-07-31) writes:

> I installed auctex 11.86 and I stumble over issues when using preview. When 
> saying "Preview -> Document" I get a "one-way-road"- sign and the error 
> messages are listed below (sorry, somewhat lengthy ...)
>
> The document is a latex document, it looks as follows:
>
> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
> \begin{document}
> \begin{equation}
> f_{Res}=\frac{1}{2\pi\sqrt{m_{M}F_{M}}}=\frac{\omega_{0}}{2\pi}
> \end{equation}
> \end{document}

Hm, this is working fine here.

> The output after activating preview latex see below. Obviously ghostscript 
> stumbles across some issue - but I do not understand which one.
[...]
> Running `Preview-PDF2DSC' with ``pdf2dsc test.pdf 
> test.prv/tmp23068TMR/preview.dsc''
> Error: /undefinedfilename in --file--

The error looks like it cannot find test.pdf.  At least I get something
similar when I execute `pdf2dsc foo.pdf' on the command line if foo.pdf
is not available.  Does pdf2dsc work if you call it manually on an
existing PDF file?

-- 
Ralf