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-.TH EPSTOPDF 1 "18 March 2010"
+.TH EPSTOPDF 1 "12 May 2013"
.\" $Id$
.SH NAME
epstopdf, repstopdf \- convert an EPS file to PDF
@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ result is piped to Ghostscript and a PDF version written.
.P
If the bounding box is not right, of course, there are problems.
.SH OPTIONS
+Options may start with either "\fB-\fP" or "\fB--\fP", and may be
+unambiguously abbreviated. (It is best to use the full option name in
+scripts, though, to avoid possible collisions with new options in the
+future.)
+.PP
.IP "\fB--outfile\fP=\fIfile\fP"
write result to \fIfile\fP. If this option is not given, and
\fB--nogs\fP or \fB--filter\fP is specified, write to standard output;
@@ -53,13 +58,13 @@ display help message and exit
.IP "\fB--version\fP
display version information and exit
.SH EXAMPLES
-Examples which produce "test.pdf":
+Examples all equivalently producing "test.pdf":
.nf
epstopdf test.eps
-produce postscript | epstopdf --filter >test.pdf
-produce postscript | epstopdf -f -d -o=test.pdf
+cat test.eps | epstopdf --filter >test.pdf
+cat test.eps | epstopdf -f -d -o=test.pdf
.fi
-Example: look for HiresBoundingBox and produce corrected PostScript:
+Example to look for HiResBoundingBox and produce corrected PostScript:
.nf
epstopdf -d --nogs --hires test.ps >testcorr.ps
.fi