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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-eps.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-eps.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..ae5d45c197a --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-eps.html @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +<head> +<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label eps</title> +</head><body> +<h3>What is “Encapsulated PostScript” (“EPS”)</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 “leaking” (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 “structured comments” are required; important ones are + the identification of the file type, and information about the + “bounding box” of the figure (i.e., the minimum rectangle + enclosing it); +<li> some commands are forbidden — for example, a <code>showpage</code> + command will cause the image to disappear, in most TeX-output + environments; and +<li> “preview information” is permitted, for the benefit of things + such as word processors that don’t have the ability to draw + PostScript in their own right — 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 +“Encapsulated PostScript” (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’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> +</body> |