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@@ -18,16 +18,19 @@ level 2 or higher). (<i>Unix</i> users should beware of
<i>xv</i>&rsquo;s claims: it has a tendency to downsample your bitmap to
your screen resolution.)
<p/>Special purpose applications <i>jpeg2ps</i> (which converts
-JPEG files using PostScript level 2 functionality) and
+JPEG files using PostScript level 2 functionality),
<i>bmeps</i> (which converts both JPEG and PNG
-files), and <i>a2ping</i>/<i>sam2p</i> (which convert a
+files) and <i>a2ping</i>/<i>sam2p</i> (which convert a
bewildering array of bitmap formats to EPS or PDF files;
<i>sam2p</i> is one of the engines that <i>a2ping</i> uses)
are also considered &ldquo;good bets&rdquo;.
<p/><i>Bmeps</i> comes with patches to produce your own version of
<i>dvips</i> that can cope with JPEG and PNG direct,
using <i>bmeps</i>&rsquo;s conversion library. <i>Dvips</i>, as
-distributed by MiKTeX, comes with those patches built-in.
+distributed by MiKTeX, comes with those patches built-in, but
+assuming that capability destroys portability, and is only
+recommendable if you are sure you will never want to share your
+document.
<dl>
<dt><tt><i>a2ping</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/a2ping.zip">graphics/a2ping</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/a2ping.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/a2ping/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>bmeps</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/bmeps.zip">support/bmeps</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/bmeps.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/bmeps/">browse</a>)