[Tex/LaTex] the best side-by-side preview method for Emacs24 AUCTeX

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I am new to the Emacs world. I did this transition from one of the best latex editors and despite of the complexity of Emacs at every turn, I can still see there is future in learning it on the long run. I installed windows version of GNU Emacs24 as it offers all-in-one bundle kindly authored by Vincent Goulet.

I installed the AUCTeX according to its manual. I wrote a small tex file, but I did not figure out how to get a side-by-side preview like that of TeXStudio for example.

I found one here called latex-preview-pane. It works but still do not get a PDF only bohemic script instead (see image below).

Another issue when I put the code (latex-preview-pane-enable) in the .emacs default.el, it throws an error, so this means I have to activate it each time from mini buffer area.

When I press M-P (Alt + Shift + p) it opens pdf in the default external pdf viewer I have on machine which is Foxit in this case without any problem.
So what am I missing here? How can I get a decent side-by-side preview in Emacs24?

By the way I want to compile every time with xelatex and not pdflatex is it possible to define this option in the .el file?

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Note

Window seven 32bit
Texlive 2013 distribution
Emacs 24.3.1
AUCTeX 11.87.5

Update
The latex-preview-pane worked by when I press M-p it does not update the preview. Other issue the right margin is partially hidden whreas too much white space on the left (see screenshot below). How to fix that?

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I installed the AUCTeX according to its manual. I wrote a small tex file, but I did not figure out how to get a side-by-side preview like that of TeXStudio for example.

I found one here called latex-preview-pane. It works but still do not get a PDF only bohemic script instead (see image below).

Author of latex-preview-pane here. It looks like (as T. Verron pointed out) you do not have doc-view-mode installed. On Windows Emacs installs this is sometimes the case. Here's a link to a guide for getting doc-view-mode working on Windows:

http://emacsworld.blogspot.com/2009/08/getting-docview-to-work-on-windows.html

Also, be sure to read through the latex-preview-pane Wiki page, here: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LaTeXPreviewPane

In particular, make sure that you are getting it from MELPA, not elsewhere.

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I was having this same problem when I stumbled across this post. I was able to fix it the following way:

Note, I am using Emacs23.3.1, AUCTeX 11.86, Ubuntu 11.10, Gnome3.2.1

Open a .tex file (or make one). I will assume that you are using Emacs23, using an Xwindow (Mine is in Gnome). Go to the menu bar and do:

Preview -> Customize -> Browse Options

In this buffer, do:

Preview GS -> Preview GS options -> [click on the little arrow to show the options] -> del -dSAFER

C-x C-s to save, and reload Emacs. Previews should work now!

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I got the correct *.dll files and put them in emacs' binaries. I also had to make a clean install of emacs (emacs-24.4-bin-i686-pc-mingw32.zip) and install AUCTeX with M-x package-install RET auctex RET. My emacs file is constructed from different people's emacs.

;;; Schlosser's .emacs
(server-start)
(add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'turn-on-reftex)
(setq reftex-plug-into-AUCTeX t)
(setq-default ispell-program-name "aspell")


;;; Brent.Longborough's .emacs
(setq inhibit-splash-screen t); Disable splash screen
(setq visible-bell t); Flashes on error
;(set-face-background hl-line-face "#f2f1f0"); Same color as greyness in gtk
(show-paren-mode 1); Matches parentheses and such in every mode


;;; AUCTeX
;; Customary Customization, p. 1 and 16 in the manual, and http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AUCTeX#toc2
(setq TeX-parse-self t); Enable parse on load.
(setq TeX-auto-save t); Enable parse on save.
(setq-default TeX-master nil)

(setq TeX-PDF-mode t); PDF mode (rather than DVI-mode)

(add-hook 'TeX-mode-hook 'flyspell-mode); Enable Flyspell mode for TeX modes such as AUCTeX. Highlights all misspelled words.
(add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook 'flyspell-prog-mode); Enable Flyspell program mode for emacs lisp mode, which highlights all misspelled words in comments and strings.
(setq ispell-dictionary "english"); Default dictionary. To change do M-x ispell-change-dictionary RET.
(add-hook 'TeX-mode-hook
          (lambda () (TeX-fold-mode 1))); Automatically activate TeX-fold-mode.
(setq LaTeX-babel-hyphen nil); Disable language-specific hyphen insertion.

;; " expands into csquotes macros (for this to work babel must be loaded after csquotes).
(setq LaTeX-csquotes-close-quote "}"
      LaTeX-csquotes-open-quote "\\enquote{")

;; LaTeX-math-mode http://www.gnu.org/s/auctex/manual/auctex/Mathematics.html
(add-hook 'TeX-mode-hook 'LaTeX-math-mode)


(custom-set-variables
 ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
 ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
 ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 '(preview-default-document-pt 12))
(custom-set-faces
 ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
 ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
 ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 )

This is what I have now:

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