[Scribus] Creation of PDFs in black and white

Le Tigre scribus
Tue Feb 21 10:29:03 CET 2006


Craig Bradney a ?crit :
> On Tuesday 21 February 2006 10:00, Le Tigre wrote:
> 
>>Rich Shepard a ?crit :
>>
>>>On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, James King wrote:
>>>
>>>>... however I've not been able to find a resolution on creating black &
>>>>white PDFs from colour documents.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>My printer requests it this way, and I also like to prepare small
>>>>web-based colour versions to be released after publication (so creating
>>>>the layouts in B&W isn't an option).
>>>
>>>James,
>>>
>>>   I'm not sure why there's a problem. If you print your document on a
>>>laser printer, for example, the images are rendered in grey scale, not
>>>color (unless you have a color LaserJet, of course). Now, if all you have
>>>is an inkjet printer, that's a horse of a different garage.
>>>
>>>   Make two versions of your color images. The original, in color, for
>>>viewing on computer monitors, and one in grey scale for printing. Use The
>>>GIMP to do the conversion ... or Imagemagick's convert.
>>>
>>>Rich
>>
>>I think that James wants to export 2 kinds of PDF: 1 in color, and the
>>other in B/W, from the same document (which is in colour).
>>So what he needs is the option Color in export: "Output intended for":
>>- Printer makes a pdf in color
>>- Greyscale makes a pdk B/W
>>
>>Raphael
> 
> 
> 
> Which 1.3.x has.
> 
> Craig
> 
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Like always, my english is not clear: I wanted to say that he should use 
these options, and not that he should wait for them...
Sorry :)

Raphael




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