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+           |                  PURIFYEPS                  |
+           |                                             |
+           | Convert an ordinary Encapsulated PostScript |
+           | file (.eps) into one that works with both   |
+           | LaTeX+dvips and pdfLaTeX.                   |
+           |                                             |
+           |     By Scott Pakin, scott+peps@pakin.org    |
+           +---------------------------------------------+
+
+
+Description
+-----------
+
+While pdfLaTeX has a number of nice features, its primary shortcoming
+relative to standard LaTeX+dvips is that it is unable to read ordinary
+Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files, the most common graphics format
+in the LaTeX world.  purifyeps converts EPS files into a "purified"
+form that can be read by *both* LaTeX+dvips and pdfLaTeX.  The trick
+is that the standard LaTeX2e graphics packages can parse
+MetaPost-produced EPS directly.  Hence, purifyeps need only convert an
+arbitrary EPS file into the same stylized format that MetaPost
+outputs.
+
+Documentation is provided in Unix man-page format and in PDF
+(U.S. letter-sized).  In addition, executing "purifyeps --help" gives
+basic command-line usage.
+
+
+Requirements
+------------
+
+To run purifyeps, you will need the following:
+
+   * Perl     (http://www.cpan.org)
+
+   * pstoedit (http://www.pstoedit.net/pstoedit)
+
+   * a LaTeX distribution that includes MetaPost (mpost)
+
+purifyeps itself is a Perl script.  On certain operating systems, you
+may need to rename purifyeps (e.g., to purifyeps.pl) to notify the
+system that purifyeps is, in fact, a Perl script.
+
+
+Copyright and license
+---------------------
+
+Copyright (C) 2010 by Scott Pakin
+
+This file may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of
+the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c of this license
+or (at your option) any later version.  The latest version of this
+license is in:
+
+   http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
+
+and version 1.3c or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX
+version 2006/05/20 or later.