On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 07:37:19 +1000 "Owen" <rcook at pcug.org.au> wrote:
> > > On Sat, 6 Jul 2013 16:42:41 -0400 > > john Culleton <John at wexfordpress.com> wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 06:26:52 +0200 (CEST) > >> "Christoph Sch?fer" <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de> wrote: > >> > >> > > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 04. Juli 2013 um 17:29 Uhr > >> > > Von: "john Culleton" <John at wexfordpress.com> > >> > > An: "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus at lists.scribus.net> > >> > > Betreff: [scribus] Change existing pdf to pure b/w > >> > > > >> > > I have an existing pdf file that has a few spots of blue text > >> that > >> > > when you click on them take you somewhere. They are mail > >> addresses > >> > > and urls. I want to change them to just plain black for a > >> printed > >> > > book. Can this be done with a profile? Of course the underlying > >> > > code is superfluous also. > >> > > > >> > > Any thoughts? > >> > > >> > Why don't you just open the file in a PDF viewer like Okular and > >> > print to a greyscale PDF? > > > > > > > That didn't work. Saved it from okular with the grayscale option > > chosen > > but the resulting file still had color in it. > > > > > > I wonder whether your PDF viewer is parsing the content to "colorise" > the http and mailto links? > > What happens if you open the pdf in gimp? > > Still have blue here and there. Printing to a pdf file in okular with grayscale clicked on definitively doesn't work. Tried to dividing the 259 page file into 20 page pdf blocks using pdftk. Scribus 1.4.3 totally distorted the 20 page pdf files and Scribus 1.5.0 (latest version) blew up with sig 11. Finally found a procedure that works. Set up a 260 page document in Scribus 1.5.0. Importing pages one by one using the import vector facility. Adjusted each imported page to fit proper margins. This process is continuing. But at any point in this tedious process when I export the current file to grayscale pdf it is indeed in grayscale. Another lister suggested this. The urls, page references and mailtos are now in B/W. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
