Am Montag, 20. Februar 2006 23:23 schrieb Louis Desjardins: > James King a ?crit : > > I'm currently looking into switching to scribus as my main DTP, away from > > MS Word (which is now inadequate for the size and style I now need/want > > to work at) and Acrobat 5.0. I've had a look through the documentation > > website, which answered many questions, 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). Before now I've created postscript > > files in B&W and then fed them through the Acrobat Distiller, is there a > > way I can cut down on this labour intensive task by using Scribus?
Hi James, > Hi James, > > There is an option in 1.3.3 cvs (maybe also in previous versions) for > outputing a grayscale PDF. I personnaly did not try this feature yet but > it should work fine. > > You can also open up your images in GIMP and save them as grayscale > images. That way, you will have full control on your images. Plus, they > will be lighter (in terms of weight in KB or MB!) and the resulting PDF > will be as well. One thing you should keep in mind is that converting a colour image to grayscale in GIMP or any other image editor doesn't create a real b/w picture, just a colour image without ... colours. To make a real b/w image, you have to work a bit on the original. Here's a tutorial for GIMP: http://www.gimpguru.org/Tutorials/Color2BW/ > > HTH > > Louis > > > Thanks in advance for any advice! > > > > James King HTH, Christoph
