[AUCTeX] AucTeX preview error: DviPS sentinel: Spawning child process: invalid argument

[mirko.vukovic]

Hello,

When trying to invoke the preview mode I get the error listed in the subject 
line.  

I am using emacs 22.1 and AucTeX 11.84.  I use the cygwin environment, and 
ghostscript for windows.  

When I try to generate a preview on a region (equation in this example)

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{equation}
a=b
\end{equation}
\end{document}

I get the following in my error buffer: 

Preview-LaTeX exited as expected with code 1 at Mon Jul 02 14:32:18
Running `Preview-DviPS' with ``dvips -Pwww "_region_.dvi" -o 
"_region_.prv/tmp43288un"/preview.ps''
This is dvips(k) 5.95b Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2007.07.02:1432' -> _region_.prv/tmp43288un/preview.ps
<tex.pro><texps.pro><special.pro>. <cmr10.pfb><cmmi10.pfb>[1] 

Preview-DviPS finished at Mon Jul 02 14:32:18
DviPS sentinel: Spawning child process: invalid argument

I think that auctex can see dvips and gswin32.exe:  It can generate a ps file 
and if I invoke the shell command gswin32, I get a gs window with a prompt.

Here is the AucTeX bug-info:


Emacs  : GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE
Package: 11.84

current state:
==============
(setq
 AUCTeX-date "2007-01-12"
 window-system 'w32
 LaTeX-version "2e"
 TeX-style-path '("style" "auto" "d:/The-Works/Bibliographies/style"
                  "d:/The-Works/Bibliographies/auto"
                  "e:/program-files/emacs-22.1/site-lisp/auctex/style"
                  "e:/program-files/emacs-22.1/var/auctex")
 TeX-auto-save t
 TeX-parse-self t
 TeX-master t
 TeX-command-list '(("TeX" "%(PDF)%(tex) %`%S%(PDFout)%(mode)%' %t"
                     TeX-run-TeX nil
                     (plain-tex-mode ams-tex-mode texinfo-mode) :help
                     "Run plain TeX")
                    ("LaTeX" "%`%l%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil
                     (latex-mode doctex-mode) :help "Run LaTeX")
                    ("Makeinfo" "makeinfo %t" TeX-run-compile nil
                     (texinfo-mode) :help "Run Makeinfo with Info output")
                    ("Makeinfo HTML" "makeinfo --html %t" TeX-run-compile nil
                     (texinfo-mode) :help "Run Makeinfo with HTML output")
                    ("AmSTeX" "%(PDF)amstex %`%S%(PDFout)%(mode)%' %t"
                     TeX-run-TeX nil (ams-tex-mode) :help "Run AMSTeX")
                    ("ConTeXt" "texexec --once --texutil %(execopts)%t"
                     TeX-run-TeX nil (context-mode) :help "Run ConTeXt once")
                    ("ConTeXt Full" "texexec %(execopts)%t" TeX-run-TeX nil
                     (context-mode) :help "Run ConTeXt until completion")
                    ("BibTeX" "bibtex %s" TeX-run-BibTeX nil t :help
                     "Run BibTeX")
                    ("View" "%V" TeX-run-discard t t :help "Run Viewer")
                    ("Print" "%p" TeX-run-command t t :help "Print the file")
                    ("Queue" "%q" TeX-run-background nil t :help
                     "View the printer queue" :visible TeX-queue-command)
                    ("File" "%(o?)dvips %d -o %f " TeX-run-command t t :help
                     "Generate PostScript file")
                    ("Index" "makeindex %s" TeX-run-command nil t :help
                     "Create index file")
                    ("Check" "lacheck %s" TeX-run-compile nil (latex-mode)
                     :help "Check LaTeX file for correctness")
                    ("Spell" "(TeX-ispell-document \"\")" TeX-run-function nil
                     t :help "Spell-check the document")
                    ("Clean" "TeX-clean" TeX-run-function nil t :help
                     "Delete generated intermediate files")
                    ("Clean All" "(TeX-clean t)" TeX-run-function nil t :help
                     "Delete generated intermediate and output files")
                    ("Other" "" TeX-run-command t t :help
                     "Run an arbitrary command")
                    )
 )


Thanks,

Mirko