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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 > > ================ > > Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:22:20 -0800 > From: "Dov Isaacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: Grayscale PDFs > To: "Ben Warburton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > <framers@lists.frameusers.com> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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 > > > ================ -- _________________________ John Pitt, technical writer 47 Gottenham St Glebe NSW 2037 Ph: 02 9692 8096 Mob: 0438 92 8096 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.pitt.net.au _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
