Hi,
Here's a patch that fixes this bug by calling `dvipng' with the `-bg
Transparent' argument only when no background color is set.
Regards,
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Sébastien Miquel
>From 5872fc3143162fbda11cf2aa5a3798567664be99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?S=C3=A9bastien=20Miquel?=
Date: Sun, 23 May 2021 22:07:25 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] org.el (org-create-formula-image): Fix ignored background
color
* lisp/org.el (org-preview-latex-process-alist): add a `:transparent-image-converter'
property for `dvipng'.
(org-create-formula-image): If available, use
`:transparent-image-converter' when no background color is set.
---
lisp/org.el | 14 +++---
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
index 1bd9e02eb..d544e62fb 100644
--- a/lisp/org.el
+++ b/lisp/org.el
@@ -3319,7 +3319,9 @@ All available processes and theirs documents can be found in
:image-output-type "png"
:image-size-adjust (1.0 . 1.0)
:latex-compiler ("latex -interaction nonstopmode -output-directory %o %f")
- :image-converter ("dvipng -D %D -T tight -bg Transparent -o %O %f"))
+ :image-converter ("dvipng -D %D -T tight -o %O %f")
+ :transparent-image-converter
+ ("dvipng -D %D -T tight -bg Transparent -o %O %f"))
(dvisvgm
:programs ("latex" "dvisvgm")
:description "dvi > svg"
@@ -3374,6 +3376,9 @@ PROPERTIES accepts the following attributes:
given to the shell and supports any of the following
place-holders defined below.
+If set, :transparent-image-converter is used instead of :image-converter to
+convert an image when the background color is nil or \"Transparent\".
+
Place-holders used by `:image-converter' and `:latex-compiler':
%finput file name
@@ -16288,7 +16293,6 @@ a HTML file."
org-format-latex-header
'snippet)))
(latex-compiler (plist-get processing-info :latex-compiler))
- (image-converter (plist-get processing-info :image-converter))
(tmpdir temporary-file-directory)
(texfilebase (make-temp-name
(expand-file-name "orgtex" tmpdir)))
@@ -16302,7 +16306,11 @@ a HTML file."
"Black"))
(bg (or (plist-get options (if buffer :background :html-background))
"Transparent"))
- (log-buf (get-buffer-create "*Org Preview LaTeX Output*"))
+ (image-converter
+ (or (and (string= bg "Transparent")
+ (plist-get processing-info :transparent-image-converter))
+ (plist-get processing-info :image-converter)))
+ (log-buf (get-buffer-create "*Org Preview LaTeX Output*"))
(resize-mini-windows nil)) ;Fix Emacs flicker when creating image.
(dolist (program programs)
(org-check-external-command program error-message))
--
2.31.1
