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From: gojjoe <at> gmail.com
To: bug-auctex <at> gnu.org
Subject: 11.88; preview with pdftex not working
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 16:16:02 +0100

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Hi all,

Preview does not seem to work with pdftex processing, and I 
can't find the cause. Here is my configuration and tex test 
files:

Windows 7 32-bit
MikTeX 2.9
Emacs 24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601)
AucTeX 11.88 installed via elpa

Init file .emacs is minimal, only containing these two lines:

(require 'package) (package-initialize)
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . 
"http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/") t)


The tex test document (attached) is also minimal.

AucTeX loads without problems upon opening the latex 
document, and all its macros and syntax highlighting work 
fine. It also compiles the document in pdftex mode without 
problems, giving the pdf output file.

However, upon running preview-buffer or preview-document or 
preview-section (without caching the preamble), a 
_region_.pdf is created but the images aren't embedded in 
the pdf.

I'm attaching the test tex document, my init file, and the 
output files generated by preview-buffer (I've substituted 
my user name with asterisks for privacy).

Thank you for your help!
J

-----------------------------
Emacs  : GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601)
 of 2013-03-17 on MARVIN
Package: 11.88

Run buffer contents:

Running `Preview-LaTeX' on `_region_' with ``pdflatex 
-file-line-error 
"\nonstopmode\nofiles\PassOptionsToPackage{active,tightpage,auctex}{preview}\AtBeginDocument{\ifx\ifPreview\undefined\RequirePackage[displaymath,floats,graphics,textmath,sections,footnotes]{preview}[2004/11/05]\fi}" 
"\input" "_region_.tex"''
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.15 (MiKTeX 2.9)
entering extended mode
LaTeX2e <2014/05/01>
Babel <3.9l> and hyphenation patterns for 19 languages loaded.

No auxiliary output files.

(_region_.tex  !name(testpreview.tex)
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\base\article.cls"
Document Class: article 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX 
document class
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\base\size10.clo"))
No file _region_.aux.
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\preview\preview.sty"
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 
2.9\tex\latex\preview\prtightpage.def")
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\preview\prauctex.def"
No auxiliary output files.


("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\preview\prauctex.cfg"))
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 
2.9\tex\latex\preview\prfootnotes.def")
Preview: Fontsize 10pt
Preview: PDFoutput 1
)  !name(testpreview.tex) !offset(-3)
_region_.tex:15: Preview: Snippet 1 started
Preview: Tightpage -32891 -32891 32891 32891
_region_.tex:15: Preview: Snippet 1 ended.(655359+0x22609920)
[1{C:/Users/pglpm/AppData/Local/MiKTeX/2.9/pdftex/config/pdftex.map}]
_region_.tex:17: Preview: Snippet 2 started
_region_.tex:17: Preview: Snippet 2 ended.(455111+54613x2586081)
[2]
_region_.tex:19: Preview: Snippet 3 started
_region_.tex:21: Preview: Snippet 3 ended.(812652+0x22609920)
[3] )
(see the transcript file for additional 
information)<C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.
9/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmbx12.pfb><C:/Program 
Files/MiKTeX 2.9/fonts/
type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmex10.pfb><C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 
2.9/fonts/type1/pu
blic/amsfonts/cm/cmmi10.pfb><C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 
2.9/fonts/type1/public/ams
fonts/cm/cmr10.pfb>
Output written on _region_.pdf (3 pages, 35604 bytes).
Transcript written on _region_.log.

TeX Output exited as expected with code 1 at Thu Jan 29 16:04:45
LaTeX: LaTeX found no preview images


current state:
==============
(setq
 AUCTeX-version "11.88"
 LaTeX-command-style '((""
			"%(PDF)%(latex) %(file-line-error) %(extraopts) %S%(PDFout)")
		       )
 image-types '(png gif tiff jpeg xpm xbm pbm)
 preview-image-type 'png
 preview-image-creators '((dvipng
			   (open preview-gs-open preview-dvipng-process-setup)
			   (place preview-gs-place)
			   (close preview-dvipng-close))
			  (png (open preview-gs-open) (place preview-gs-place)
			   (close preview-gs-close))
			  (jpeg (open preview-gs-open)
			   (place preview-gs-place) (close preview-gs-close))
			  (pnm (open preview-gs-open) (place preview-gs-place)
			   (close preview-gs-close))
			  (tiff (open preview-gs-open)
			   (place preview-gs-place) (close preview-gs-close))
			  )
 preview-dvipng-image-type 'png
 preview-dvipng-command "dvipng -picky -noghostscript %d -o 
\"%m/prev%%03d.png\""
 preview-pdf2dsc-command "pdf2dsc %s.pdf %m/preview.dsc"
 preview-gs-command "c:/PROGRAM FILES/GS/BIN/GSWIN32C.EXE"
 preview-gs-options '("-q" "-dDELAYSAFER" "-dNOPAUSE" 
"-DNOPLATFONTS"
		      "-dPrinted" "-dTextAlphaBits=4" "-dGraphicsAlphaBits=4")
 preview-gs-image-type-alist '((png png "-sDEVICE=png16m")
			       (dvipng png "-sDEVICE=png16m")
			       (jpeg jpeg "-sDEVICE=jpeg")
			       (pnm pbm "-sDEVICE=pnmraw")
			       (tiff tiff "-sDEVICE=tiff12nc"))
 preview-fast-conversion t
 preview-prefer-TeX-bb nil
 preview-dvips-command "dvips -Pwww -i -E %d -o %m/preview.000"
 preview-fast-dvips-command "dvips -Pwww %d -o %m/preview.ps"
 preview-scale-function 'preview-scale-from-face
 preview-LaTeX-command '("%`%l 
\"\\nonstopmode\\nofiles\\PassOptionsToPackage{"
			 ("," . preview-required-option-list)
			 
"}{preview}\\AtBeginDocument{\\ifx\\ifPreview\\undefined" 
preview-default-preamble "\\fi}\"%' %t")
 preview-required-option-list '("active" "tightpage" "auctex"
				(preview-preserve-counters "counters"))
 preview-preserve-counters nil
 preview-default-option-list '("displaymath" "floats" 
"graphics" "textmath"
			       "sections" "footnotes")
 preview-default-preamble '("\\RequirePackage["
			    ("," . preview-default-option-list)
			    "]{preview}[2004/11/05]")
 preview-LaTeX-command-replacements nil
 preview-dump-replacements '(preview-LaTeX-command-replacements
			     ("\\`\\([^ ]+\\)\\(\\( +-\\([^ 
\\\\\"]\\|\\\\\\.\\|\"[^\"]*\"\\)*\\)*\\)\\(.*\\)\\'" "\\1 
-ini -interaction=nonstopmode \"&\\1\" " preview-format-name 
".ini \\5")
			     )
 preview-undump-replacements '(("\\`\\([^ ]+\\) .*? 
\"\\\\input\" \\(.*\\)\\'"
				"\\1 -interaction=nonstopmode \"&"
				preview-format-name "\" \\2")
			       )
 preview-auto-cache-preamble 'ask
 preview-TeX-style-dir 
"c:/Users/*******/work/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-11.88.2/latex"
 )

Output from running `c:/PROGRAM FILES/GS/BIN/GSWIN32C.EXE -h':
GPL Ghostscript 9.06 (2012-08-08)
Copyright (C) 2012 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Usage: gs [switches] [file1.ps file2.ps ...]
Most frequently used switches: (you can use # in place of =)
 -dNOPAUSE           no pause after page   | -q 
`quiet', fewer messages
 -g<width>x<height>  page size in pixels   | -r<res> 
pixels/inch resolution
 -sDEVICE=<devname>  select device         | -dBATCH  exit 
after last file
 -sOutputFile=<file> select output file: - for stdout, 
|command for pipe,
                                         embed %d or %ld 
for page #
Input formats: PostScript PostScriptLevel1 PostScriptLevel2 
PostScriptLevel3 PDF
Default output device: display
Available devices:
   bbox bit bitcmyk bitrgb bj10e bj200 bjc600 bjc800 bmp16 
bmp16m bmp256
   bmp32b bmpgray bmpmono bmpsep1 bmpsep8 cdeskjet cdj550 
cdjcolor cdjmono
   cups declj250 deskjet devicen display djet500 djet500c 
eps9high eps9mid
   epson epsonc epswrite ibmpro ijs jetp3852 jpeg jpegcmyk 
jpeggray laserjet
   lbp8 lj250 ljet2p ljet3 ljet3d ljet4 ljet4d ljetplus 
m8510 mswindll
   mswinpr2 necp6 nullpage pamcmyk32 pamcmyk4 pbm pbmraw 
pcx16 pcx24b pcx256
   pcxcmyk pcxgray pcxmono pdfwrite pgm pgmraw pgnm pgnmraw 
pj pjxl pjxl300
   pkmraw plan planc plang plank planm plib plibc plibg 
plibk plibm png16
   png16m png256 pngalpha pnggray pngmono pngmonod pnm 
pnmraw ppm ppmraw
   ps2write psdcmyk psdrgb psmono pswrite pxlcolor pxlmono 
r4081 spotcmyk
   st800 stcolor svg t4693d2 t4693d4 t4693d8 tek4696 
tiff12nc tiff24nc
   tiff32nc tiff48nc tiff64nc tiffcrle tiffg3 tiffg32d 
tiffg4 tiffgray
   tifflzw tiffpack tiffscaled tiffscaled24 tiffscaled8 
tiffsep tiffsep1
   txtwrite uniprint
Search path:
   C:\Program Files\gs\bin ; C:\Program Files\gs\lib ;
   C:\Program Files\gs\fonts ; %rom%Resource/Init/ ; 
%rom%lib/ ;
   c:/gs/gs9.06/Resource/Init ; c:/gs/gs9.06/lib ;
   c:/gs/gs9.06/Resource/Font ; c:/gs/fonts
Initialization files are compiled into the executable.
For more information, see c:/gs/gs9.06/doc/Use.htm.
Please report bugs to bugs.ghostscript.com.

[testpreview.tex (application/x-tex, attachment)]

[_region_.pdf (application/pdf, attachment)]

[_region_.log (text/plain, attachment)]

[.emacs (text/plain, attachment)]

Message #8 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: gojjoe <at> gmail.com
To: bug-auctex <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: 11.88; preview with pdftex not working
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 16:22:02 +0100

Sorry, I must add an important point: emacs' *Messages* 
shows this upon opening the tex file:

'c:/PROGRAM' is not recognized as an internal or external 
command,
operable program or batch file.

So I wonder if there's some misuse of quotation marks in 
paths (with respect to Windows syntax) in some file of the 
auctex-package.

Cheers,
J



On 2015-01-29 16:16, gojjoe <at> gmail.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Preview does not seem to work with pdftex processing, and I
> can't find the cause. Here is my configuration and tex test
> files:
>
> Windows 7 32-bit
> MikTeX 2.9
> Emacs 24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601)
> AucTeX 11.88 installed via elpa
>
> Init file .emacs is minimal, only containing these two lines:
>
> (require 'package) (package-initialize)
> (add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" .
> "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/") t)
>
>
> The tex test document (attached) is also minimal.
>
> AucTeX loads without problems upon opening the latex
> document, and all its macros and syntax highlighting work
> fine. It also compiles the document in pdftex mode without
> problems, giving the pdf output file.
>
> However, upon running preview-buffer or preview-document or
> preview-section (without caching the preamble), a
> _region_.pdf is created but the images aren't embedded in
> the pdf.
>
> I'm attaching the test tex document, my init file, and the
> output files generated by preview-buffer (I've substituted
> my user name with asterisks for privacy).
>
> Thank you for your help!
> J

Message #11 received at 19724 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org>
To: gojjoe <at> gmail.com
Cc: 19724 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19724: 11.88; preview with pdftex not working
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 18:22:48 +0100

gojjoe <at> gmail.com writes:

> Preview: Fontsize 10pt
> Preview: PDFoutput 1
> )  !name(testpreview.tex) !offset(-3)
> _region_.tex:15: Preview: Snippet 1 started
> Preview: Tightpage -32891 -32891 32891 32891
> _region_.tex:15: Preview: Snippet 1 ended.(655359+0x22609920)
> [1{C:/Users/pglpm/AppData/Local/MiKTeX/2.9/pdftex/config/pdftex.map}]
> _region_.tex:17: Preview: Snippet 2 started
> _region_.tex:17: Preview: Snippet 2 ended.(455111+54613x2586081)
> [2]
> _region_.tex:19: Preview: Snippet 3 started
> _region_.tex:21: Preview: Snippet 3 ended.(812652+0x22609920)
> [3] )

Uh oh.  The error message format gives no hint to preview-latex about
the _column_ of the errors.  This absolutely cannot be fixed from within
preview-latex.  Try to see whether you can configure your pdftex to
produce a more TeX-like error message, or any other way for the error
message to show the problematic column (the latter may need further work
on preview-latex by the developers, but at least will move the problem
from the state of "unfixable").

If you can do so using some command line option, that can be configured
into AUCTeX's way of calling LaTeX, of course.

I see that your settings include

 LaTeX-command-style '((""
			"%(PDF)%(latex) %(file-line-error) %(extraopts) %S%(PDFout)")
		       )

It would seem that the setting of %(file-line-error) chosen for MikTeX
precludes correct column info.  As a temporary measure, it might work to
do

M-x customize-variable RET LaTeX-command-style RET

and then removing the %(file-line-error) part from the customization
option.

-- 
David Kastrup

Message #14 received at 19724 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: gojjoe <at> gmail.com
To: 19724 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19724: 11.88; preview with pdftex not working
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 20:19:11 +0100

Thank you David, I'll try modifying LaTeX-command-style now.

In the meantime I've found something related to pdf2dsc. The 
variable
preview-pdf2dsc-command

has this standard value on my system:

"pdf2dsc %s.pdf %m/preview.dsc"

Now, when I run preview-section, I get this output:


Running `Preview-PDF2DSC' with ``pdf2dsc "_region_".pdf 
"_region_.prv/tmp177872XCF"/preview.dsc''

Preview-PDF2DSC killed at Thu Jan 29 20:10:44
LaTeX: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil


You notice that the variables %s and %m get expanded with 
quotation marks, and the .pdf and /preview.dsc are appended. 
I wonder if this is related to the problem.

Cheers,
J


On 2015-01-29 18:22, David Kastrup wrote:
>
> Uh oh.  The error message format gives no hint to preview-latex about
> the _column_ of the errors.  This absolutely cannot be fixed from within
> preview-latex.  Try to see whether you can configure your pdftex to
> produce a more TeX-like error message, or any other way for the error
> message to show the problematic column (the latter may need further work
> on preview-latex by the developers, but at least will move the problem
> from the state of "unfixable").
>
> If you can do so using some command line option, that can be configured
> into AUCTeX's way of calling LaTeX, of course.
>
> I see that your settings include
>
>   LaTeX-command-style '((""
> 			"%(PDF)%(latex) %(file-line-error) %(extraopts) %S%(PDFout)")
> 		       )
>
> It would seem that the setting of %(file-line-error) chosen for MikTeX
> precludes correct column info.  As a temporary measure, it might work to
> do
>
> M-x customize-variable RET LaTeX-command-style RET
>
> and then removing the %(file-line-error) part from the customization
> option.
>

Message #17 received at 19724 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: gojjoe <at> gmail.com
To: 19724 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19724: 11.88; preview with pdftex not working
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 21:39:11 +0100

David, removing %(file-line-error) from LaTeX-command-style 
solved the problem: preview is working fine now. Thank you!

Also, in case it's useful: I temporarily reinstalled the 
previous version of AucTeX (11.88 – now it's 11.88.2), and 
preview was working fine there – and in that version the 
default LaTeX-command-style did NOT have the 
%(file-line-error) part.

Thank you very much again,
J


> On 2015-01-29 18:22, David Kastrup wrote:
>>
>> Uh oh.  The error message format gives no hint to
>> preview-latex about
>> the _column_ of the errors.  This absolutely cannot be
>> fixed from within
>> preview-latex.  Try to see whether you can configure your
>> pdftex to
>> produce a more TeX-like error message, or any other way
>> for the error
>> message to show the problematic column (the latter may
>> need further work
>> on preview-latex by the developers, but at least will move
>> the problem
>> from the state of "unfixable").
>>
>> If you can do so using some command line option, that can
>> be configured
>> into AUCTeX's way of calling LaTeX, of course.
>>
>> I see that your settings include
>>
>>   LaTeX-command-style '((""
>>             "%(PDF)%(latex) %(file-line-error)
>> %(extraopts) %S%(PDFout)")
>>                )
>>
>> It would seem that the setting of %(file-line-error)
>> chosen for MikTeX
>> precludes correct column info.  As a temporary measure, it
>> might work to
>> do
>>
>> M-x customize-variable RET LaTeX-command-style RET
>>
>> and then removing the %(file-line-error) part from the
>> customization
>> option.
>>

Message #20 received at 19724 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mosè Giordano <mose <at> gnu.org>
To: gojjoe <at> gmail.com
Cc: 19724 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19724: 11.88; preview with pdftex not working
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 15:34:51 +0100

close 19724
tags 19724 notabug
thanks


Hi,

2015-01-29 21:39 GMT+01:00  <gojjoe <at> gmail.com>:
> David, removing %(file-line-error) from LaTeX-command-style solved the
> problem: preview is working fine now. Thank you!
>
> Also, in case it's useful: I temporarily reinstalled the previous version of
> AucTeX (11.88 – now it's 11.88.2), and preview was working fine there – and
> in that version the default LaTeX-command-style did NOT have the
> %(file-line-error) part.

You can set `TeX-file-line-error' to nil if you don't want the
file:line:error style, instead of customizing `LaTeX-command-style' or
downgrading AUCTeX.

Unfortunately, MiKTeX' compilers are less detailed when
file:line:error style is requested, I cannot see any
good reason for this behavior.  On the other side, with TeX Live you
have same verbosity + file:line:error style.

I'm going to close this bug report.

Bye,
Mosè

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