Subject: bug#44578: AW: AW: bug#45894: Bug report for preview-latex

From: David Kastrup <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 00:57:50 +0100

"Bruckmann, Tobias" <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hi Ikumi, David
>
> this is a bad situation. I am quite surprised I am the first (and only?) one
> to stumble across this:
> - Most scientific works use vector EPS graphics. psfrag is extremely popular
> in this field.
> - Most works are published in PDF
> - You can't get around hyperref
>
> The combination of pstool and pdfLaTeX seems to be the most promising
> approach to me to join these points in one toolchain. Living with an old
> version might work for some months, but this can't be the future.
>
> So there's no pathway and this toolchain is dead forever?
>
> Thanks for your appreciated comment,

So what are you willing to invest to avert the catastrophe?  In terms of
procuring code or paying for the time of those who do?

-- 
David Kastrup