Re: [preview-latex-devel] rel-0-8-1; preview-latex fails with new AUCTeX setting

[David K. <da...@gn...>]

David Kastrup <da...@gn...> writes:

> Peter Dyballa <Pet...@We...> writes:
>
>> When exactly this conversion is still a bit unreliable why isn't
>> configure checking for the right gs and warning about an unusable
>> software/recommending usable versions and catching this with not
>> obeying the rule to use PDF output?
>
> But the conversion is not unreliable.  You should have pretty much
> the same problems when going via Dvips/GhostScript.  If there is a
> difference between GhostScript's bugs in PDF mode and PS mode, it is
> not yet known and/or debugged.

Now it is known and debugged.  It was an unfortunate security setting
in pdf2dsc coming with GhostScript 8.x.  I have changed the manner of
accessing files completely.  As a result, all versions of GhostScript
should now work in the CVS version.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum


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