Hi Peter, One thing you can do is to "save as" an image format and then use an image editor to adjust levels.
As a check, I just opened a pdf in preview and then saved as a png. I could then open the png in both Graphic converter and iPhoto - both of which offered me options to set levels. I'm not very familiar with using iPhoto but I could see that the edit pane gave access to an "Adjust" tool palette which offers many adjustments, including: - An histogram with sliders for the black, white and midrange levels - Exposure - Contrast - Saturation Actually, I now see that once you save the pdf as an image, you can actually adjust the colour and exposure within Preview, although iPhoto may offer more options/controls. One thing to be aware of is that the conversion to an image means that you can no longer select text to copy and paste into other applications (all the content has been changed into a bitmap) - so it may be worth keeping the original pdf for that and just using the .png (or other image format) for optimising the levels for printing. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 3/3/10 4:15 PM, Peter Curtis at pcur...@aapt.net.au wrote: > > Hi > I've a problem with a .pdf I'm printing. Unfortunately the writing is > extremely faint and I cannot see any way of darkening it. I've looked at all > the options I have with the printer (Fuji Xerox C525A) and can't see any way > of darkening the print. > Has anyone got any suggestions? > Have I missed some obvious solution? > Regards > Peter > MacBook Pro 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo running 10.6.2 > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
