On 2011-02-27, Nuno J. Silva <[email protected]> wrote:
> Michael Orlitzky <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> On 02/08/11 08:50, Nuno J. Silva wrote:
>>> Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to convert
>>> a PDF (or postscript) to grayscale?
>>
>> A laserjet? =)
>
> That makes me wonder... in a color printer, I expect it not to print any
> color when it has no color ink, but do grayscale printers apply some
> conversion internally, to make sure that e.g. plain cyan is still
> visible (instead of making it white)?
No.
No matter what transformation you use from a 3-dimensional space into
a 1-dimensional space, there will be sets of values that differ in the
3-dimensional space which map to identical values in the 1-dimensional
space.
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