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

[mirko.vukovic]

Mirko Vukovic, Ph.D.
Technology Development Center, US
Tokyo Electron America, US Holdings, Inc.
255 Fuller Road, Suite 244
Albany, New York 12203
(518) 320-1948 (office)
(518) 320-1983 (fax)
address@hidden
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Kastrup [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 4:12 PM
> To: TTCA Vukovic, Mirko
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [AUCTeX] AucTeX preview error: DviPS sentinel: 
> Spawning child process: invalid argument
> 
> <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > 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: 
> 
> Try reporting your problem with
> M-x preview-report-bug RET
> since the AUCTeX report contains too little information for diagnosis.
> 
> --
> David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
> 

Something interesting shows up:  Preview's bug report tries to invoke 
/gswin32c.exe and reports that it cannot find it.  (Why the forward slash? 
Maybe something in one of my path specs?)

I have to run home now.  I'll look into this some more tomorrow and also try to 
answer Ralf's questions.


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

current state:
==============
(setq
 AUC-TeX-version "11.84"
 LaTeX-command-style '(("" "%(PDF)%(latex) %S%(PDFout)"))
 image-types '(png gif tiff jpeg xpm xbm pbm)
 preview-image-type 'png
 preview-image-creators '((dvipng (open preview-gs-open 
preview-dvipng-process-setup)
                           (place preview-gs-place) (close 
preview-dvipng-close))
                          (png (open preview-gs-open) (place preview-gs-place) 
(close preview-gs-close))
                          (jpeg (open preview-gs-open) (place preview-gs-place)
                           (close preview-gs-close))
                          (pnm (open preview-gs-open) (place preview-gs-place) 
(close preview-gs-close))
                          (tiff (open preview-gs-open) (place preview-gs-place)
                           (close preview-gs-close))
                          )
 preview-dvipng-image-type 'png
 preview-dvipng-command "dvipng -picky -noghostscript %d -o 
\"%m/prev%%03d.png\""
 preview-pdf2dsc-command "pdf2dsc %s.pdf %m/preview.dsc"
 preview-gs-command "/gswin32c.exe"
 preview-gs-options '("-q" "-dSAFER" "-dNOPAUSE" "-DNOPLATFONTS" "-dPrinted" 
"-dTextAlphaBits=4"
                      "-dGraphicsAlphaBits=4")
 preview-gs-image-type-alist '((png png "-sDEVICE=png16m") (dvipng png 
"-sDEVICE=png16m")
                               (jpeg jpeg "-sDEVICE=jpeg") (pnm pbm 
"-sDEVICE=pnmraw")
                               (tiff tiff "-sDEVICE=tiff12nc"))
 preview-fast-conversion t
 preview-prefer-TeX-bb nil
 preview-dvips-command "dvips -Pwww -i -E %d -o %m/preview.000"
 preview-fast-dvips-command "dvips -Pwww %d -o %m/preview.ps"
 preview-scale-function 'preview-scale-from-face
 preview-LaTeX-command '("%`%l \"\\nonstopmode\\nofiles\\PassOptionsToPackage{"
                         ("," . preview-required-option-list)
                         
"}{preview}\\AtBeginDocument{\\ifx\\ifPreview\\undefined"
                         preview-default-preamble "\\fi}\"%' %t")
 preview-required-option-list '("active" "tightpage" "auctex" 
(preview-preserve-counters "counters"))
 preview-preserve-counters nil
 preview-default-option-list '("displaymath" "floats" "graphics" "textmath" 
"sections" "footnotes")
 preview-default-preamble '("\\RequirePackage[" ("," . 
preview-default-option-list)
                            "]{preview}[2004/11/05]")
 preview-LaTeX-command-replacements nil
 preview-dump-replacements '(preview-LaTeX-command-replacements
                             ("\\`\\([^ ]+\\)\\(\\( +-\\([^ 
\\\\\"]\\|\\\\\\.\\|\"[^\"]*\"\\)*\\)*\\)\\(.*\\)\\'" "\\1 -ini 
-interaction=nonstopmode \"&\\1\" " preview-format-name ".ini \\5")
                             )
 preview-undump-replacements '(("\\`\\([^ ]+\\) .*? \"\\\\input\" \\(.*\\)\\'"
                                "\\1 -interaction=nonstopmode \"&" 
preview-format-name "\" \\2")
                               )
 preview-auto-cache-preamble 'ask
 preview-TeX-style-dir nil
 )

Output from running `/gswin32c.exe -h':