Nick, I think you misunderstood Kevin ... The way I read his comments, you should open the color PDF and then print it to your PDF output device (assuming you have one besides the scanner). The output from the reprint will be in B&W and should be more agile.
If you do not have a pdf output device, you can get one for $20 on up. The only other alternative would be to re-scan the originals or print the colored ones and rescan them. HTH HALinNY -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Causton Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 12:47 To: 'ProFox Email List' Subject: RE: [NF] Convert colour PDF files to black & white? Hi Kevin, "what if you automate the printing of the color PDF through automation" Sorry I didn't quite explain properly, this scanner device creates the PDF and writes it directly to the network; I don't think there is likely to be any way to control it by software. Nick > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Kevin Cully > Sent: 17 July 2006 16:56 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NF] Convert colour PDF files to black & white? > > I'm just grasping at straws, but what if you automate the printing of > the color PDF through automation to a new document with the current > settings and it ends up as B&W? Would that work? > > Once verified that the new file was created and of expected size, you > could delete (or archive) off the original color one. > > Kevin Cully > CULLY Technologies, LLC > > Sponsor of Fox Forward 2006! > http://foxforward.net > > > Nick Causton wrote: > > Anyone got any idea how to convert a colour PDF to a black & white > > one, > are > > there any tools out there that would do this job? > > > > One of my clients has been scanning in documents on their big shiny > Canon > > scanner/printer/copier. Problem is the default format is PDF > > colour! I have now changed that to 300x300 greyscale PDF (compact), > > a much more > disk > > space friendly format. As you can imagine these are taking-up a > > fair > bit of > > space and we have now reached the point where the backup tape is > > full, primarily because of the thousands of these ruddy scanned documents. > > > > Now writing something to do a tree walk of the drive and retrieve > > the > path > > of each of these is no problem, what is a problem at the moment is > finding > > something that will take a colour PDF and convert it to a 300x300 > greyscale > > compact PDF. > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
