Yes, please send that example! Rhino
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paulo Soares" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rhino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "itext" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 12:55 PM Subject: RE: [iText-questions] Suppressing coloured background when printing PDF? That's easy to do with layers in Acrobat 6 and later; it's impossible for earlier versions. I can send you an example if you want. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Rhino > Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 5:10 PM > To: itext > Subject: [iText-questions] Suppressing coloured background > when printing PDF? > > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------- 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
