New CTAN package: purifyeps

[Jim Hefferon]

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its
way to you local mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint at tug.ctan.org

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: purifyeps
Author's name: Scott Pakin 
Location on CTAN: support/purifyeps
Summary description: Make EPS files work with both latex+dvips and pdflatex
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
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While pdfLaTeX has a number of nice features, its
primary shortcoming relative to standard LaTeX+dvips is
that it is unable to read ordinary Encapsulated
PostScript (EPS) files, the most common graphics format
in the LaTeX world.  purifyeps converts EPS files into
a "purified" form that can be read by *both*
LaTeX+dvips and pdfLaTeX.  The trick is that the
standard LaTeX2e graphics packages can parse
MetaPost-produced EPS directly.  Hence, purifyeps need
only convert an arbitrary EPS file into the same
stylized format that MetaPost outputs.
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