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on 8/29/03 6:47 AM, prepress at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "The XXXX [x's are mine] wants to post their newsletter with COLOR images on > their website. To save time on my end, is it possible in the future for me to > design the newsletter with color images, send the printer that color PDF, but > have their prepress output the file as a two-color job with grayscale images? > Or am I just asking too much of the present technology?!" I don't think the real issue is one of capability. It is more an issue of responsibility. As a designer you should never send out a color image that will be reinterpreted to grayscale without seeing it first. There are lots of ways that grayscale screens are determined based on the color of the source graphic - not to mention profiles. I would recommend creating the newsletter in color and making your website PDFs. Then create the second set of images that are grayscale conversions of the color. Balancing each converted image will make all the difference in how the images actually look printed. Replace the color images with their grayscale counterparts and then send your reconstituted two-color newsletter to the printer to print. Incidentally, I'd be surprised if the printer printed something that they had converted to grayscale that you hadn't seen or signed off on. Trusting the printer to automatically convert your colors to grayscale could cost you dearly in the look of your final, expensive, print run and your relationship with the client. Technically, there are plug-ins available that will grayscale an entire color PDF. Quite A Box of Tricks is the one I use. However, there may be a problem graying out the PDFs color images without simultaneously graying out the second color of your two-color job. Hope this helps, -- C. Scott Miller, EDP Performance Graphics http://www.performancegraphics.com/ Adobe Certified Expert for Acrobat To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
