Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 11.84; Preview does not create preview in Emacs.app on Mac OS X 10.4.11 (Tiger)

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 06.01.2008 um 23:38 schrieb Reinhard Kotucha:

> Seriously, if this is a GS problem, the first thing to do is to try
> older or newer versions.


It is not a Ghostscript problem since the same display math region  
from the same file can lead to the PNG file in Carbon Emacsen 22.1.50  
and X clients GNU Emacs 21.3.50, 22.1.50, 23.0.0, 23.0.50, and  
23.0.60. It's only the Cocoa ports of GNU Emacs 23.0.0 and 23.0.60  
that fail. Both, Carbon and Cocoa ports, do not support PostScript  
image types. The Cocoa ports *can* have a different mechanism to  
create a process environment in which gs runs, but this has to be  
verified.

PostScript debugging makes it necessary to know exactly what is fed  
into gs in its own process environment. This information is not  
delivered. The ktrace programme does not seem to provide this (it's a  
pity that Mac OS X is neither Solaris nor some Linux). Using the  
output of Preview I can invoke gs on the command line and it produces  
the PNG file.

--
Mit friedvollen Grüßen

  Pete

What is this talk of 'release?' Klingons do not make software  
'releases.'  Our software 'escapes,' leaving a bloody trail of  
designers and quality assurance people in its wake.