[Tikzdevice-bugs] Problems with DVI

[Sharpie]

On Saturday, April 30, 2011 10:19:32 PM UTC-7, Sharpie wrote:
>
> On Friday, April 29, 2011 3:56:20 AM UTC-7, arnyeinstein wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> > I just starting using tikzdevice and it works fine when I use latex to 
> pdf. 
> > However if  I generate a dvi-file and want to have a look at it using Yap 
>
> > (Miktex 2.9 on Windows 7), Yap crashes without error messages. I tried 
> > simple examples but all cause crashes of Yap. Any idea what is going 
> wrong?
> > Renger
> >
>
> I know Yap is nice because of it's speed, but I'm afraid there is not much 
> that can be done about this---advanced graphics are beyond the core 
> capabilities of the DVI format.
>
> -Charlie
>

A follow-up: It appears that PGF 2.10 introduced a bug into the Postscript 
rendering pipeline that messes with the Preview package---which the 
tikzDevice uses to produce standAlone figures. As Yap appears to be capable 
of interpreting `dvips` specials, this bug could be causing the crash you 
are getting.

Relative info:

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/17080/does-tikz-2-1-no-longer-work-with-the-preview-package

-Charlie