From: Alan Bowen <acbowen@princeton.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: PDF grayscale conversion (OT)
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:40:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <982ADF68-AA8F-4C80-AD37-6B2448D73EC3@princeton.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68bfdc900903092343q6a79a2acn1539d4a65b555b29@mail.gmail.com>
Luigi, Yue—many thanks. I will look into with both Ghostscript and
ImageMagick to see what I can do.
Best, Alan
On Mar 10, 2009, at 02;14,12 , luigi scarso wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Alan Bowen <acbowen@princeton.edu>
> wrote:
>> I have used to ConTeXt to generate a hefty PDF file with b/w text
>> and color
>> images. Is there a way to convert this file to a PDF file with b/w
>> text and
>> grayscale images (256 shades)? I know I could always convert the
>> images
>> first and then reset the book, but I was wondering if there was a
>> simpler
>> more direct way before I start doing that. (There are over 70
>> images.)
> Maybe with ghostscript
>
> --
> luigi
On Mar 10, 2009, at 02;43,11 , Yue Wang wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Yue Wang <yuleopen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> try convert (in image magick)
> convert book.pdf -colorspace Gray book.jpg
> might help. (it will generate book-xx.jpg)
>
> Yue Wang
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-10 2:38 Alan Bowen
2009-03-10 6:14 ` luigi scarso
2009-03-10 6:38 ` Yue Wang
2009-03-10 6:43 ` Yue Wang
2009-03-10 12:40 ` Alan Bowen [this message]
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