From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PtupE-00067u-6P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 04:35:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D6DA6E0654; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 04:33:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FC72E0654 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 04:33:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywl2 with SMTP id 2so1872908ywl.40 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:33:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=KxzR/jHvdFZMtnxYaj/pCsvGSmgEb677bNGNNf5pkIs=; b=M4gIWAncIkVTdYpr7WsND5Bx6wT9s57UYTEJvTsRqKff1ru1tk01z5IwvifM9tj5hI yDKxv/dDm1wiMT5h9gsfgt4PP5b0V0N0ZfSqSm3hzEeVunzlz2odzLo7M8Y+NNar6+Z4 4Byni3EZlBDDDoIrpTAE77mEkveDJXjeXHeWM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=mF95NbaDnDqHYdNBinmrsojgLmazrCoZSq/zfPeBffYhGa4cm6LnWAJD5eWlXv5RQM Zi925+Y9PhLfE4pAenO9vLGrVPKZpYCj+yfV2K9cOb6IkZ0M2kZsS7cpxr+xzjkWFyO0 wLaFQB/g0/PgQScdjFrbNpAGcqroJhQMCszpI= Received: by 10.150.44.12 with SMTP id r12mr6523201ybr.428.1298867610907; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:33:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.10.7] (c-68-32-248-84.hsd1.tn.comcast.net [68.32.248.84]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p29sm1999072ybk.1.2011.02.27.20.33.29 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:33:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D6B267F.7030408@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:37:19 -0500 From: Valmor de Almeida User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20110218 Lightning/1.0b3pre Lanikai/3.1.7 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] PDF: convert to grayscale References: <87ipwuiqjr.fsf@ist.utl.pt> In-Reply-To: <87ipwuiqjr.fsf@ist.utl.pt> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 55b2aa41e51e8df36ea64a27a9724315 On 02/08/2011 08:50 AM, Nuno J. Silva wrote: > Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to convert > a PDF (or postscript) to grayscale? > > Ghostscript does this, but is unable to convert gradients and fills > (they're replaced by bitmaps) which results in a too big file unless I > drastically reduce quality. > Have you tried inkscape? it is in portage. -- Valmor