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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 index 53fc6588cf1..c4ad7a11d4c 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-eps.html +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-eps.html @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ <head> <title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label eps</title> </head><body> -<h3>What is “Encapsulated PostScript” (“EPS”)?</h3> +<h3>What is “Encapsulated PostScript” (“EPS”)?</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 @@ -9,30 +9,30 @@ 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 +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 +<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 + “bounding box” of the figure (i.e., the minimum rectangle enclosing it); -<li> some commands are forbidden — for example, a <code>showpage</code> +<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 +<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 +“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. +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> |