Allowing your printer, if they would do it in the first place, to convert your files to grayscale would be risky.
Best way to go, in my opinion, would be to generate separate files to individual specs.
Scott M,
"Technically, there are plug-ins available that will grayscale an
entirecolor PDF.
Quite A Box of Tricks is the one I use."
I have tried Quite A Box of Tricks to convert 4 color hi-res PDF's
to grayscale.
Although it has performed better than anything else I have tried, it
often produces gray images with an unacceptabley dark tonal value.
Is there something I'm mising?
~Tom Lee
Longs Drugs Corp. Adv.
"C. Scott Miller" wrote:
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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/
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