[Bug-AUCTeX] Re: [AUCTeX] Can't get previews

[David Kastrup]

address@hidden writes:

> Running gswin32c.exe gives me the GS> prompt in MSYS. And with the
> -h option I get reasonable response.
>  
> Any more ideas?

Not really.

> How do I report this to the bug report discussions?

By keeping it in the mail addresses like you just did.  Probably
because I explicitly set the reply-to header, butit should be possible
to do a "wide answer" even if that is not the case.

> Do you think this is a bug or a problem with my init files?

Hard to say.

>> Run  buffer contents:
>
> [...]  All perfectly normal, and the parsing of  the output works, too,
> or you would not get "triangles and  circles".
>
>> Preview-DviPS finished at Mon Jan 09 13:51:57
>>  Running `Preview-Ghostscript' with ``"GSWIN32C.EXE"  
> "-dOutputFile=(circ.prv/
>> tmp23688rt/pr1-%d.png)" "-q" "-dSAFER"  "-dNOPAUSE" "-DNOPLATFONTS" 
> "-dPrinted"
>> "-dTextAlphaBits=4"  "-dGraphicsAlphaBits=4" "-sDEVICE=png16m"
>>  "-r99.568x106.206"''
>
> Perfectly normal until this point, and then your  machine appears to
> lock up.  My guess is that preview-latex is waiting  for the prompt
> "GS>" from the Ghostscript executable and never gets  it.

So you should probably check whether any of the named output files get
produced by GhostScript (in this case, circ.prv/tmp23688rt/pr1-1.png
and similar, but this will differ from run to run).

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum