From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] PDF: convert to grayscale
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:07:19 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimB+jjJhQK7LRoLX9FKpcBOG1PdoAtrmGEUPBbe@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ipwuiqjr.fsf@ist.utl.pt>
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Nuno J. Silva <nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt> 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.
Are you the creator of the document and want to save the original as
greyscale, or you want to convert an already existing PDF?
If the latter I think the easy way is to use ghostscript (pdf2ps) to
render it as greyscale postscript. Then you could convert the PS back
to PDF if you need to. But if you already tried that, then, I don't
know...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-11 22:09 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 ` [gentoo-user] [OT] " Nuno J. Silva
2011-02-28 15:08 ` [gentoo-user] " 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 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2011-02-11 22:40 ` [gentoo-user] " 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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