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-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label eps</title>
-</head><body>
-<h3>What is &#8220;Encapsulated PostScript&#8221; (&#8220;EPS&#8221;)?</h3>
-<p/>PostScript has been for many years a <em>lingua franca</em> of powerful
-printers (though 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 &#8220;leaking&#8221; (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 &#8220;structured comments&#8221; are required; important ones are
- the identification of the file type, and information about the
- &#8220;bounding box&#8221; of the figure (i.e., the minimum rectangle
- enclosing it);
-<li> some commands are forbidden &#8212; for example, a <code>showpage</code>
- command will cause the image to disappear, in most TeX-output
- environments; and
-<li> &#8220;preview information&#8221; is permitted, for the benefit of things
- such as word processors that don&#8217;t have the ability to draw
- PostScript in their own right &#8212; 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
-&#8220;Encapsulated PostScript&#8221; (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&#8217;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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