Re: [AUCTeX] Unable to preview images

[gojjoe]

Hi José,

First of all: I have libpng16-16.dll in my
C:\Program Files\Emacs\bin\
directory. Do you? You didn't mention in your email if you do.

Cheers,
J


On 20151124 10:23, José Carlos Santos wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am unable to preview images with Emacs 24.5.1 + AucTeX
> 11.89, working under Windows. Whenever I try to do that I
> get the "preview-image-type setting 'png unsupported by this
> Emacs" error. Why is that? It is written at
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/README that
>
>        PNG: requires the PNG reference library 1.4 or later,
> which will
>        be named libpngNN.dll or libpngNN-NN.dll.  LibPNG
> requires zlib,
>        which should come from the same source as you got
> libpng.
>        Starting with Emacs 23.3, the precompiled Emacs
> binaries are
>        built with libpng 1.4.x and later, and are
> incompatible with
>        earlier versions of libpng DLLs.  So if you have
> libpng 1.2.x,
>        the PNG support will not work, and you will have to
> download
>        newer versions.
>
> Therefore, I should already have PNG support. What am I
> missing?
>
> Best regards,
>
> José Carlos Santos