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Subject:Re: Printing images in black and white from PDFs From:Paul Lopez <plopez -at- ariens -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 15 Jun 2001 09:29:40 -0500
the problem:
Viv Matthew wrote:
> Hi Whirlers
> We have several pdfs containing (literally) thousands of colour
> images, many of which are simply grey window screenshots. In previous
> doc releases the printers have put b&w pages through one machine and
> those pages with 'real' colour images through another. However this
> has caused a variety of problems with collation etc so we are keen to
> avoid this for our upcoming release.
>
> We are now looking for a way of printing the b&w images in b&w whilst
> maintaining the colours in certain images. The images are a mixture
> of gifs and tifs, and we're using Frame 6.0, Distiller and Paint Shop
> Pro.
> We've tried converting the images to greyscale and fiddling with the
> Distiller Job settings but so far without luck.
>
> Is this possible? What do we need to do (we accept we may have to
> replace colour pages in final PDFs)? I've searched the archives and
> frameuser archives but to no avail.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help (even if it is telling us it's
> impossible!)
> Viv
> _______________________________________________________
You may want to investigate a plug-in called 'Quite a Box of Tricks'
which may help as long as the color images and grey images don't share
the same page. You can get info at www.quite.com. Hope it helps!
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