>>>>> David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> writes:
>> Are you thinking that it isn't fruitful to follow up the development of
>> ghostscript every time incompatible change is introduced?

> No since the changes tend to be completely arbitrary.  It's absolutely
> not fruitful but exasperating.  That doesn't mean that it's not
> necessary.

> In this particular case, this is partly related to _not_ using
> GhostScript as PDF interpreter but instead using pdftodsc and then
> working with the resulting not-quite-standard PostScript.  This
> minimises the amount of knowledge and code required to make this work
> but necessitates working with interfaces of Ghostscript that its
> developers feel no obligation to provide some consistency for.

> Changing the operation in a manner foregoing pdftodsc would likely make
> preview-latex less vulnerable to this kind of recurring API change.

I infer from what you wrote that you don't have intent to fix the
problem for yourself, at least for now.  Right?

Regards,
Ikumi Keita



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