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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-eps.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-eps.html index 7e44cafe153..ae5d45c197a 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-eps.html +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-eps.html @@ -2,15 +2,16 @@ <title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label eps</title> </head><body> <h3>What is “Encapsulated PostScript” (“EPS”)</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 “leaking” (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> @@ -33,5 +34,5 @@ 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> +<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> |