[OS X TeX] Aquamacs and preview-latex

[Chris Menzel]

Has anyone experienced any problems with preview-latex recently, esp on
an Intel Mac?  When I preview some LaTeX code (or a region or buffer
...) the bitmaps are inserted in my Emacs buffer but they all contain a
huge amount of whitespace.  Look here to see what I mean: 

  http://cmenzel.org/buggy-preview-latex.jpg

I highlighted the region in the screenshot before grabbing it to make
the whitespace in the bitmaps more visible.  I have reported this
problem to the emacs bugs list and have corresponded with David Kastrup
(the maintainer of the auctex package) about it; I've tried installing
the newest version of auctex and have tried different versions of
ghostscript; I've checked that I'm using current versions of relevant
auxiliary programs like pdf2dsc; I've tried using Carbon Emacs instead
of Aquamacs Emacs.  All to no avail.  After installing TeXLive this
morning (via i-Installer), things are actually *better*, in that all of
my math code in a previewed region or buffer is being displayed --
before only the first string of code was being displayed (with the
excessive whitespace).  But this is still intolerable, obviously.  I run
Ubuntu Linux in a virtual machine (thanks to Parallels Desktop) and
preview runs flawlessly therein.  But I'd prefer to stay in OS X and use
Aquamacs Emacs, which has several advantages over the Linux setup.

This is all the more frustrating in light of the fact that preview was
working under Carbon Emacs a couple of months ago.  Unfortunately, I do
not know what I, or something, did in the meanwhile to break it.

Any suggestions much appreciated.

Chris Menzel

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