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-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label eps</title>
-</head><body>
-<h3>What is &ldquo;Encapsulated PostScript&rdquo; (&ldquo;EPS&rdquo;)</h3>
-<p/>PostScript has been for many years a <em>lingua franca</em> of powerful
-printers (modern high-quality printers now tend to require some
-constrained form of Adobe Acrobat, instead); since PostScript is also a
-powerful graphical programming language, it is commonly used as an
-output medium for drawing (and other) packages.
-<p/>However, since PostScript <em>is</em> such a powerful language, some
-rules need to be imposed, so that the output drawing may be included
-in a document as a figure without &ldquo;leaking&rdquo; (and thereby destroying
-the surrounding document, or failing to draw at all).
-<p/>Appendix H of the PostScript Language Reference Manual (second
-and subsequent editions), specifies a set of rules for PostScript to
-be used as figures in this way. The important features are:
-<ul>
-<li> certain &ldquo;structured comments&rdquo; are required; important ones are
- the identification of the file type, and information about the
- &ldquo;bounding box&rdquo; of the figure (i.e., the minimum rectangle
- enclosing it);
-<li> some commands are forbidden &mdash; for example, a <code>showpage</code>
- command will cause the image to disappear, in most TeX-output
- environments; and
-<li> &ldquo;preview information&rdquo; is permitted, for the benefit of things
- such as word processors that don&rsquo;t have the ability to draw
- PostScript in their own right &mdash; this preview information may be in
- any one of a number of system-specific formats, and any viewing
- program may choose to ignore it.
-</ul>
-A PostScript figure that conforms to these rules is said to be in
-&ldquo;Encapsulated PostScript&rdquo; (EPS) format. Most (La)TeX packages for
-including PostScript are structured to use Encapsulated PostScript;
-which of course leads to much hilarity as exasperated (La)TeX users
-struggle to cope with the output of drawing software whose authors
-don&rsquo;t know the rules.
-<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=eps">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=eps</a>
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