Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] preview-1.287; preview latex fails part way through document

[David Kastrup]

Joseph Mingrone <address@hidden> writes:

> I believe the problem started after upgrading to texlive-2014.  Now,
> part way through the document, the previewing fails and I see the
> "no entry" error symbols on all remaining LaTeX code.  Also, some code
> simply stays as code instead of being rendered.
>
> I've noticed two curious things.  First, the errors begin on a new
> paragraph and sometimes, if I move that first paragraph with the errors
> up and join it with the previous paragraph the errors in the paragraph
> that moved up go away.  Second, if have \usepackage{tikz} in the
> preamble, the errors are more frequent.

"More frequent" or "present at all"?

> When I mouse click on one of the errors I see
>
> -----------------------------
> gs -dOutputFile\=\(bootstrap_paper.prv/tmp31288PUv/pr11-1.png\) -q 
> -dDELAYSAFER -dNOPAUSE -DNOPLATFONTS -dPrinted -dTextAlphaBits\=4 
> -dGraphicsAlphaBits\=4 -sDEVICE\=png16m -r115.334x115.313
> GS>{<</PermitFileReading[(bootstrap_paper.prv/tmp31288PUv/preview.ps)]>> 
> setuserparams .locksafe} stopped pop {DELAYSAFER{.setsafe}if}stopped 
> pop/.preview-BP currentpagedevice/BeginPage get dup null eq{pop{pop}bind}if 
> def<</BeginPage{currentpagedevice/PageSize get dup 0 get 1 ne exch 1 get 1 ne 
> or{.preview-BP 0 0 0 setrgbcolor clippath fill 1 1 1 
> setrgbcolor}{pop}ifelse}bind/PageSize[1 1]>>setpagedevice/preview-do{[count 3 
> roll save]3 1 roll dup length 0 eq{pop}{setpagedevice}{ifelse 
> .runandhide}stopped{handleerror quit}if aload pop restore}bind def 
> [(bootstrap_paper.prv/tmp31288PUv/preview.ps)(r)file]aload exch dup 0 
> setfileposition 369084()/SubFileDecode filter cvx .runandhide aload pop dup 
> dup 373557 setfileposition 136()/SubFileDecode filter cvx<<>>preview-do
> Error: /typecheck in --div--
> Operand stack:
>    10   10   0.0   TeXcolorgray   65781.8

Something messes up the PostScript stack.  tikz would be a likely
culprit, yes, since most other LaTeX packages don't meddle with
PostScript.

-- 
David Kastrup