> I pretty routinely use eps2eps to "clean up" EPS files created by Acrobat or > Adobe Illustrator. This seems often to be required for Ghostscript to be > happy, at least. Maybe this will help with your EPS files as well.
I didn't see this until today, since I was not copied on the message. Running eps2eps does indeed give a file that groff (or gs) processes properly. Thanks for the suggestion! It still seems to me that Acrobat files ought to work without the intermediate step. Frank