RE: Grayscale PDFs

2006-12-01 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 06:18 -0800 28/11/06, Dov Isaacs wrote: I think that you are confusing two separate facilities, the Ink Manager and the Convert Colors facility. You're right, I was. I appreciate that this has become an Acrobat discussion, but the source came from FrameMaker. Here's an interesting thing. I

RE: Grayscale PDFs

2006-11-28 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 12:22 -0800 27/11/06, Dov Isaacs wrote: A more inclusive fix would be to not use the driver option but to use the color conversion features of Acrobat 7 Pro or Acrobat 8 Pro. This is topical, as I've just trialled 8 Pro for a very similar reason. It is my understanding that some 'advanced'

RE: Grayscale PDFs

2006-11-28 Thread Dov Isaacs
were trying to find out or gave you the wrong answer or both. Sorry! - Dov -Original Message- From: Steve Rickaby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 12:54 AM To: Dov Isaacs Cc: framers@FrameUsers.com Subject: RE: Grayscale PDFs At 12:22 -0800 27

RE: Grayscale PDFs

2006-11-28 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 06:18 -0800 28/11/06, Dov Isaacs wrote: Steve, I think that you are confusing two separate facilities, the Ink Manager and the Convert Colors facility. That is quite possible: I only had a short time to try out Acrobat 8 Pro. Another FrameUsers contributor had pointed me at the ink manager

RE: Grayscale PDFs

2006-11-27 Thread Dov Isaacs
Ben, The methodology that you are using works as long as NONE of your content is EPS or PDF containing color. That driver option does not do anything to content that passes through the driver. EPS and PDF (which is actually converted to the equivalent of EPS for output PostScript streams) is not

Re: Grayscale PDFs

2006-11-26 Thread Bill Swallow
Our company has just changed printers and I have received a request for grayscale print-ready PDFs rather than the full colour PDFs we have always delivered (the Adobe recommended method of producing PDFs for sending to commercial printers). To generate grayscale, we used the Properties General