Preview doesn't work with ghostscript 9.01
Bug #747354 reported by
Andi Albrecht
This bug affects 8 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| auctex (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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| auctex (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: auctex
There's a lot of discussion regarding auctex-11.86 and ghostscript 9.01 regarding preview of math formulas. Actually the current packages of ghostscript (9.01~dfsg-
Here's one (of many) posts on auctex related lists regarding this issue: http://
The common advice is either to downgrade ghostscript or to upgrade auctex.
I've installed a current version (source checkout as of 2011-03-27) of auctex and can report that preview mode works then.
Would be really nice to see a working combination of auctex/ghostscript in the finaly release of natty... :)
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| Andi Albrecht (andialbrecht) wrote | #1 |
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| Andi Albrecht (andialbrecht) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in auctex (Debian): | |
| status: | Unknown → New |
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| Joe Selman (selmanj) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in auctex (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
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| quazgar (quazgar) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in auctex (Debian): | |
| status: | New → Fix Released |
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I can confirm this. This seems pretty important as the preview package is completely broken. Doesn't seem to be an easy fix.
Anyone reading this can try what I did by removing Ubuntu's provided auctex package and installing the snapshot version found here:
http://