PIL vs eps

[Just van Rossum]

In article <mailman.1014835309.1869.python-list at python.org>,
 <brueckd at tbye.com> wrote:

> Forgive me if I'm totally off my rocker, but I think by definition eps
> files should *not* have a showpage and it is technically correct that
> nothing gets rendered unless you have a showpage command. EPS is
> "encapsulated postscript" - postscript that you intend to encapsulate or
> embed in another document, so showpage would muck things up.

The EPS spec says showpage is optional, and that the surrounding ps code 
should redefine showpage as a no-op.

  http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/pdfs/tn/5002.EPSF_Spec.pdf

Just