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

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From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
To: "Nicolas Richard" <theonewiththeevillook <at> yahoo.fr>
Cc: 20749 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20749: 11.88;
 Meta Bug: Long standing preview bug with TIKZ (6 years!?)
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 18:34:25 +0200

"Nicolas Richard" <theonewiththeevillook <at> yahoo.fr> writes:

Hi Nicolas,

>>> 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 ?

Oh, yes, seems so.  And 315 seems also related.

> For some reason, it seems that upstream is not fixing it even though a
> patch is available.

Why do you think that?  AFAICS, no official has done a statement on
that, and the issue is just one year old.

> FWIW I've been running with that patch for a few months have yet to
> see a problem with it.

Which one?  And do you also save \shipout before \begin{document} and
restore it afterwards as indicated by the comment by Kirill Müller?

In any case: if there's anything that we could put into preview.dtx to
fix the issue from our side, that would be awesome.  Patch welcome!

Bye,
Tassilo

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