Subject: bug#20749: 11.88; Meta Bug: Long standing preview bug with TIKZ (6 years!?)

From: "Nicolas Richard" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 17:52:23 +0200

Tassilo Horn <[email-masked]> writes:

> [email-masked] writes:
>
> Hi!
>
>> The preview feature is not working for people that have
>>
>> \usepackage{tikz}
>>
>> and some other common stuff in their document. This is really a pity.
>
> Yes, I know.  Unfortunately, my TeX/PostScript knowledge is far too
> limited to do anything about it.
>
>> How can we actually solve this problem?
>
> Find someone with the right skills who knows how to fix the issue.  At
> least this issue has the benefit of being easy to reproduce, e.g., this
> MWD will do.

Isn't this https://sourceforge.net/p/pgf/bugs/316/ again ?

For some reason, it seems that upstream is not fixing it even though a
patch is available. FWIW I've been running with that patch for a few
months have yet to see a problem with it.

-- 
Nicolas Richard