Is it possible to generate a PDF that has a coloured background when you view it but to turn off the colour programmatically within the PDF when the user goes to print the document?
My document is a resume and it has a colour background. It looks great when I display it in Acrobat. When I print it in Acrobat, the same background colour is also printed. Normally, I'd say that was a good thing that it automatically prints with the same background colour that I see when I view the document. However, knowing that ink cartridges go through a lot of ink when they print coloured backgrounds, I'm wondering if there is something I can do in the document definition to tell Acrobat not to print the coloured background when it sends the document to the printer? I'd like this to be a DEFAULT behaviour, i.e. I don't want the user to have to fiddle within Adobe or his printer driver to accomplish this. Is that possible? Or should I just generate two editions of the PDF, one with a coloured background and one with a white background, and provide separate links for each, referring to one as the 'Display' version and one as the 'Printable' version? I wouldn't be wild about that solution because, in fact, both versions would be printable; it's just that one would consume less ink. Or would it be best to make the background colour white and not even attempt to have a coloured background in the resume? I'm trying to find the most professional approach.... Rhino --- rhino1 AT sympatico DOT ca "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." - C.A.R. Hoare ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
