Mpsproof.tex is based on mproof.tex which is used to make proofs of MetaPost figures. One issues the command

  (pdf)tex mpsproof pic.1 pic.2 ...

and the resulting dvi (or pdf) file contains the pictures and other information. It improves mproof.tex in the following ways:
– Either pdftex (with the support of supp-pdf.tex) or tex+dvips (with the support of epsf.tex) workflows may be used;
– Filenames may contain underscores;
– A switch \noheaders omits printing the filenames, datestamp and pagenumbers; and
– Used on one filename with the switch \encapsulate, it produces a file with page size equal to the bounding box.

Documentation is supplied as comments at the top of the file.

The author is Daniel H. Luecking.