EPS Files

EPS files are "Encapsulated PostScript" files. They are a special kind of PostScript file, restricted to describing a single page. They are thus suitable for use as an included graphic inside a document. TeX files, for instance, can use a special environment called EPSFIG to include a graphic figure stored in an EPS file.

EPS files are:

• ASCII
• Color or BW
• 2D
• No compression
• 1 image only.

Reference:

Adobe Systems,
PostScript Language Reference Manual,
Third Edition, Addison Wesley, 1999.

Programs to create an EPS file include:

• the MATHEMATICA command DISPLAY;
• MATLAB

Programs to view an EPS file include:

• The AVS module read_any_image can read an EPS file;
• GhostScript
• GhostView
• Microsoft WORD

Programs to convert an EPS file to another format:

• GhostScript can be used in this way.
• PSTOPNM (which uses GhostScript) converts a PostScript file (and hence, an Encapsulated PostScript file) to PNM format.

Programs to convert a file to EPS format:

• GRF_TO_EPS converts a GRF file, containing an embedding of a 2D abstract graph, into an EPS file.

Files you may copy:

• circle.eps, a circle;
• mathematica.eps, a simple graph;
• petersen.eps, the result of converting a GRF file;

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