>> A nice side effect is that the EPS files become much smaller, but >> of course they are no longer self-contained. Again, grops >> understands this just fine, but you *must* use GhostScript >> afterwards to further process the output file. > > How is Ghostscript to be used for that?
For example by calling the ps2pdf script to create a PDF (which uses GS). Or using GS to create a PNG image, etc., etc. Werner