Logs from the TeX runs to create the previews are recorded. This  
failure exists over one year. Carbon Emacsen do not have this  
failure. I am using Mac OS X 10.4.x (Tiger).


In GNU Emacs 23.1.50.2 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0, NS apple- 
appkit-824.48)
  of 2009-06-24 on Latsche.local
Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.824
configured using `configure  '--without-sound' '--without-pop' '-- 
with-dbus' '--with-libotf' '--with-ns' '--disable-ns-self-contained'  
'--enable-locallisppath=/Library/Application Support/Emacs/ 
calendar23:/Library/Application Support/Emacs' 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/sw/ 
lib/freetype219/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/pango-ft219/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/ 
lib/fontconfig2/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/qt4-x11/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/ 
xft2/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/ 
share/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig' 'CPPFLAGS=-no-cpp-precomp'  
'CFLAGS=-Wno-pointer-sign -H -pipe -fPIC -mcpu=7450 -mtune=7450 -fast  
-mpim-altivec -ftree-vectorize -foptimize-register-move -freorder- 
blocks -freorder-blocks-and-partition -fthread-jumps -fpeephole -fno- 
crossjumping' 'LDFLAGS=-dead_strip -multiply_defined suppress''

Important settings:
   value of $LC_ALL: nil
   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
   value of $LC_CTYPE: de_DE.UTF-8
   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
   value of $LC_TIME: nil
   value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
   value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
   default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: PDFLaTeX/F

Minor modes in effect:
   reftex-mode: t
   TeX-fold-mode: t
   TeX-PDF-mode: t
   shell-dirtrack-mode: t
   diff-auto-refine-mode: t
   tabbar-mwheel-mode: t
   tabbar-mode: t
   show-paren-mode: t
   display-time-mode: t
   tooltip-mode: t
   mouse-wheel-mode: t
   menu-bar-mode: t
   file-name-shadow-mode: t
   global-font-lock-mode: t
   font-lock-mode: t
   global-auto-composition-mode: t
   auto-composition-mode: t
   auto-encryption-mode: t
   auto-compression-mode: t
   column-number-mode: t
   line-number-mode: t
   transient-mark-mode: t
   view-mode: t


--
Greetings

   Pete

There's something the technicians need to learn from the artists. If  
it isn't aesthetically pleasing, it's probably wrong.