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From: nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva)
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] [OT] Re: PDF: convert to grayscale
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 18:46:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wrkle2nr.fsf_-_@ist.utl.pt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4D559EB0.10902@orlitzky.com

Michael Orlitzky <michael@orlitzky.com> writes:

> On 02/08/11 08:50, Nuno J. Silva wrote:
>> Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to convert
>> a PDF (or postscript) to grayscale?
>
> A laserjet? =)

That makes me wonder... in a color printer, I expect it not to print any
color when it has no color ink, but do grayscale printers apply some
conversion internally, to make sure that e.g. plain cyan is still
visible (instead of making it white)?

-- 
Nuno J. Silva
gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg




  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-27 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-08 13:50 [gentoo-user] PDF: convert to grayscale Nuno J. Silva
2011-02-11 20:40 ` Michael Orlitzky
2011-02-27 18:46   ` Nuno J. Silva [this message]
2011-02-28 15:08     ` [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] " Grant Edwards
2011-02-28 15:33       ` Willie Wong
2011-02-11 20:55 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-02-11 21:08   ` [gentoo-user] " Alex Schuster
2011-02-27 13:11     ` [gentoo-user] " Nuno J. Silva
2011-02-11 22:07 ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Hartman
2011-02-11 22:40   ` Matthew Summers
2011-02-27 12:53     ` [gentoo-user] " Nuno J. Silva
2011-02-27 12:59   ` Nuno J. Silva
2011-02-28  4:37 ` [gentoo-user] " Valmor de Almeida

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