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+# ps2eps
+ps2eps - calculate correct bounding boxes for PostScript and PDF files
+
+## Description
+
+ps2eps is a tool (written in Perl) to produce Encapsulated PostScript
+Files (EPS/EPSF) from usual one-paged Postscript documents. It
+calculates correct Bounding Boxes for those EPS files and filters some
+special postscript command sequences that can produce erroneous
+results on printers. EPS files are often needed for including
+(scalable) graphics of high quality into TeX/LaTeX (or even Word)
+documents. Included graphics can be clipped to their bounding box.
+
+Nowadays PDF is more widely used, but the original problems
+described below still exist: pdfcrop sometimes does not
+produce the correct bounding box. This program can be used
+together with pdfcrop in order to produce reliable bounding
+boxes for PDF files, too.
+
+Other programs like ps2epsi do not calculate the bounding box
+always correctly (because the values are put on the postscript
+stack which may get corrupted by bad postscript code) or rounded
+it off so that clipping the EPS cut off some part of the image.
+ps2eps uses a double precision resolution of 144 dpi and appropriate
+rounding to get a proper bounding box. The internal bbox device of
+ghostscript generates different values (sometimes even incorrect),
+so using the provided bbox should be more robust.
+However, because normal clipping has only a resolution of 1/72dpi
+(postscript point), the clipping process may still erase parts
+of your EPS image. In this case please use the -l option to add
+an additional point of white space around the tight bounding box.
+
+## Documentation
+
+Please see documentation in the manpage or doc/ sub directory.
+Note that the manpage may have an older version number in it,
+which is nothing to worry about since there may have been minor
+changes incorporated into ps2eps not requiring any update of the
+documentation.
+
+## Installation
+
+see doc/INSTALL.md
+
+## Updates
+
+See the git repository: https://github.com/roland-bless/ps2eps
+
+## License (GNU GPL 2.0)
+
+This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.
+
+This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA