Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index 1. 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. (from http://computing.ee.ethz.ch/sepp/purifyeps-1.0-to.html) 2. purifyeps - make an Encapsulated PostScript file work with both dvips and pdflatex. (from the manual pages) This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.