Subject: Re: bug#77011: 14.0.9; PDF2DSC removed in Ghostscript 10.05.0

From: Arash Esbati <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 07:50:24 +0100

philanche via bug-auctex via Bug reporting list for AUCTeX <[email-masked]> writes:

> In Ghostscript 10.05.0, pdf2dsc was removed, as of the following commit: 
>
> https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=be0f68e6119879e440c134ae1c2582574e7942bd. 
>
> Since preview-auctex uses pdf2dsc as part of the rendering, trying to
> preview anything, such as a simple \(x\), will give the following
> error.

Thanks for the heads-up.  IIUC, that change breaks preview wholesale.

@Keita: I think you're mostly familiar with preview.el.  Can we work
around this change?  Or should we ask the Ghostscript people to put that
utility back?  The way I read

  https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708272

that door is still open.

Best, Arash