Thanks Peter, I have started working through these from the top but none of them seem to allow the conversion from colour to black & white.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Peter Cushing > Sent: 17 July 2006 17:58 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NF] Convert colour PDF files to black & white? > > 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? > > > Irfanview would have been perfect but does not open PDF's (as far as I > know). There is a batch processing option we use to process JPG's. > > Just did quick google search and came up with: > > http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Best/shrink-pdf-file.html > > Maybe one of those will do it. > > > Peter > > > [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.
