From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: PDF: convert to grayscale
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:55:38 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ij47oa$ggm$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ipwuiqjr.fsf@ist.utl.pt
On 2011-02-08, 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.
I don't understand what you're asking for. What sort of output format
do you want (raster, vector, ???)?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-11 20:57 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 ` Grant Edwards [this message]
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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