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My auctex renders preview images on my debian stable system (6.0.6) if I set it to dvi mode, but it fails if I set auctex to pdf mode.

auctex renders preview images on my debian stable system auctex fails if i set it to pdf mode

I assume there is either a mistake in my emacs configuration or a permanent bug in the ghostscript package.

I need help to isolate the bug step by step. Additionally I would be glad, if someone with the same software could help me out with his configuration.

Perhaps it will help, if I can upgrade the ghostscript package, but I have no idea how to do this as I found no backport yet.

My complete emacs configuration is available on github.

$ ghostscript --version
8.71
$ emacs-snapshot --version
GNU Emacs 24.2.50.1
$ pdftex --version
pdfTeX 3.1415926-1.40.10-2.2 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
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Direct PDF output does not use GhostScript, nor does it produce .dvi files (which are needed by preview). I'm therefore wondering if this can possibly work! – Joseph Wright♦ Oct 27 '12 at 18:25
If PDF output denies preview, preview should ignore the [x] Generate PDF checkbox and just do its job with the .dvi settings. – Jonas Stein Oct 27 '12 at 19:32

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Direct PDF output does not use GhostScript, nor does it produce .dvi files (which are needed by preview). Thus this is probably a bug in AUCTeX: the options should not allow 'Create a PDF' with direct PDF output.

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