Angus Leeming wrote:
> I get a bunch of warnings like
>
> [43/home/angus/preview-latex/devel/dvipng/dvipng warning: at (9633,8)
> unimplemented \special{ps::-32891 -32891 32891 32891 1655772 576976
> 22609920}. ps::-32891
> ]
>
> Which looks to me to be the metrics info that preview.sty generates when
> passed the option 'lyx'.
>
> If you look in lyxpreview2bitmap.sh, you'll see it creates a .metrics file
> which in this case starts:
>
> Preview: Tightpage -32891 -32891 32891 32891
> Preview: Snippet 1 282168 127431 338831
> Preview: Snippet 2 447828 0 491521
> Preview: Snippet 3 1612921 597113 22609920
> ...
>
> Further investigation reveals that it is not the 'lyx' option which causes
> these warnings but the 'tightpage' one.
I havent implemented these specials, and at the moment I'm not even
sure what they're for. Possibly it has something to do with positioning.
> Nonetheless, this problem is minor. The major problem is that I can't
> generate anythng sensible! The resultant png files are ridiculous ;-)
> Attached is my trial1.png together with the equivalent if using the
> dvips,gs,pnmcrop route. Here, I invoke preview.sty so:
You are using dvipng-0.4, right? That version contained a bug that
would make the boundingbox Real Strange <TM> on certain platforms (or
rather, with certain compilers). This is fixed in 0.5.
Attached is an example. (dvipng -T tight trial)
/JÅ
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