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

From: Tassilo Horn <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 17:35:59 +0200

[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.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{tikz}

\begin{document}
\(a\)

\lipsum{}

B \(b\).  C \(c\).  D \(d\).
\end{document}
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

> At least a workaround?

No, sorry I don't know any workaround except for commenting out the
\usepackage{tikz} when generating previews. :-(

Bye,
Tassilo