Greyscale

[Ben Warburton]

Many thanks for your advice Dov. We are using Acro 7 now. Bedded it down
almost a year ago now. We always send our printers "press quality" PDFs
in full colour and we've never had any problems. However, we're recently
changed printers who are requesting grayscale PDFs. When you say "as
long as NONE of your content is EPS or PDF containing color", are you
talking about embedded files in FrameMaker? If so, no problem. Except
that the printer is now complaining about graphics quality. But I
searched hi and lo in the Acro Distiller Color options and found no
option to convert to grayscale. Does such an option exist?

Regards
Ben Warburton

-----Original Message-----
From: John Pitt [mailto:john at pitt.net.au] 
Sent: Wednesday, 29 November 2006 5:24 PM
To: Ben Warburton
Subject: Greyscale

I'd follow Dov's opinion on PDFs before anyone's - he's Adobe's 
PostScript/PDF guru).

(And now you have a damn good reason to get W to upgrade your Acro to 
7-8 (if you buy 7 now, they'll upgrade you to 8 automatically (so long 
as someone completes the forms).

jjj
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 >
 > Message: 5
 > Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:22:20 -0800
 > From: "Dov Isaacs" <isaacs at adobe.com>
 > Subject: RE: Grayscale PDFs
 > To: "Ben Warburton" <bwarburton at wilcom.com.au>,
 >     <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
 > Message-ID:
 >     <5F4BF9F76511C549A314AC3EDF92EBAB0C6E2387 at namail1.corp.adobe.com>
 > Content-Type: text/plain;    charset="us-ascii"
 >
 > Ben,
 >
 > The methodology that you are using "works" as long
 > as NONE of your content is EPS or PDF containing color.
 > That driver option does not do anything to content that
 > passes "through" the driver. EPS and PDF (which is
 > actually converted to the equivalent of EPS for output
 > PostScript streams) is not touched by the driver in
 > terms of this "black and white" option.
 >
 > A more inclusive "fix" would be to not use the driver
 > option but to use the color conversion features of
 > Acrobat 7 Pro or Acrobat 8 Pro.
 >
 >     - Dov
 >
 >
 > ================


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