[scribus] Change existing pdf to pure b/w

[Owen]

> On Sat, 6 Jul 2013 16:42:41 -0400
> john Culleton <John at wexfordpress.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 06:26:52 +0200 (CEST)
>> "Christoph Schäfer" <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> > > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 04. Juli 2013 um 17:29 Uhr
>> > > Von: "john Culleton" <John at wexfordpress.com>
>> > > An: "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus at lists.scribus.net>
>> > > Betreff: [scribus] Change existing pdf to pure b/w
>> > >
>> > > I have an existing pdf file that has a few spots of blue text
>> that
>> > > when you click on them take you somewhere. They are mail
>> addresses
>> > > and urls. I want to change them to just plain black for a
>> printed
>> > > book. Can this be done with a profile? Of course the underlying
>> > > code is superfluous also.
>> > >
>> > > Any thoughts?
>> >
>> > Why don't you just open the file in a PDF viewer like Okular and
>> > print to a greyscale PDF?



>
> That didn't work. Saved it from okular with the grayscale option
> chosen
> but the resulting file still had color in it.
>



I wonder whether your PDF viewer is parsing the content to "colorise"
the http and mailto links?

What happens if you open the pdf in gimp?


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Owen