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 1PmnvC-0003sh-Dy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:47:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D3E34E0893; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 13:46:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FE2EE0893 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 13:46:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E888B1B415B for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 13:46:07 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.278 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.278 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.413, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP=1.908] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id wX9xHnEpaUKN for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 13:46:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 165951B40C9 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 13:45:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PmntF-0007ud-6n for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:45:57 +0100 Received: from bl22-126-150.dsl.telepac.pt ([2.83.126.150]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:45:57 +0100 Received: from nunojsilva by bl22-126-150.dsl.telepac.pt with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:45:57 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva) Subject: [gentoo-user] PDF: convert to grayscale Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:50:16 +0000 Message-ID: <87ipwuiqjr.fsf@ist.utl.pt> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: bl22-126-150.dsl.telepac.pt User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:J0DVFz6m4E5FZwL3bk8FxUO3Y5k= X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 37f336d9479c4fdc624def97a25659c0 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. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg