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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label eps</title>
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<h3>What is &ldquo;Encapsulated PostScript&rdquo; (&ldquo;EPS&rdquo;)</h3>
-<p>PostScript has over the years become a <em>lingua franca</em> of
-powerful printers; 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
+<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 &ldquo;leaking&rdquo; (and thereby destroying
the surrounding document, or failing to draw at all).
-<p>Appendix H of the PostScript Language Reference Manual (second
+<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>
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which of course leads to much hilarity as exasperated (La)TeX users
struggle to cope with the output of drawing software whose authors
don&rsquo;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>
+<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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