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Topic: Re: PDF result is black/white - original is color (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) What's Wrong with my PDF?, Msg: 142503
From: LeonardR
Date: 11/9/2005 07:40 AM

At 01:12 AM 11/9/2005, p-pdf-whats-wrong-with-my-pdf Listmanager wrote:
>I am printing to a post script printer driver to get a prn, then
>distilling to create a well compacted pdf.

Don't do that.

Print directly to the Adobe PDF Printer for the best quality
PDFs using a printing path.


>I do this alot - and recently i needed to create a black n white pdf
>from a color file - I managed to figure out how to do that, but now
>I cant figure out what I did - and turn it off!

You probably switched PPDs on your printer to one in B&W.

BUT the right way would have been to produce a color PDF and
then use Acrobat or a 3rd party tool to convert to B&W.


>When I print directly to: Acrobat PDF it comes out in color but the
>file size is too large.

Check your settings...


Leonard

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PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice)
215-938-0880 (fax)



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