preview-latex: Installation Trouble
B.3 Installation Trouble
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B.3.1 I just get 'LaTeX found no preview images'.
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The reason for this is that LaTeX found no preview images in the
document in question.
One reason might be that there are no previews to be seen. If you
have not used preview-latex before, you might not know its manner of
operation. One sure-fire way to test if you just have a document where
no previews are to be found is to use the provided example document
'circ.tex' (you will have to copy it to some directory where you have
write permissions). If the symptom persists, you have a problem, and
the problem is most likely a LaTeX problem. Here are possible reasons:
Filename database not updated
Various TeX distributions have their own ways of knowing where the
files are without actually searching directories. The normal
preview-latex installation should detect common tools for that
purpose and use them. If this goes wrong, or if the files get
installed into a place where they are not looked for, the LaTeX run
will fail.
An incomplete manual installation
This should not happen if you followed installation instructions.
Unfortunately, people know better all the time. If only
'preview.sty' gets installed without a set of supplementary files
also in the 'latex' subdirectory, preview-latex runs will not
generate any errors, but they will not produce any previews,
either.
An outdated 'preview' installation
The 'preview.sty' package is useful for more than just
preview-latex. For example, it is part of TeXlive. So you have to
make sure that preview-latex does not get to work with outdated
style and configuration files: some newer features will not work
with older TeX style files, and really old files will make
preview-latex fail completely. There usual is a local 'texmf'
tree, or even a user-specific tree that are searched before the
default tree. Make sure that the first version of those files that
gets found is the correct one.
Info Catalog
preview-latex: Requirements
preview-latex: Frequently Asked Questions
preview-latex: Customization