[scribus] Change existing pdf to pure b/w

john Culleton John at wexfordpress.com
Mon Jul 15 16:17:49 UTC 2013


On Sat, 6 Jul 2013 16:42:41 -0400
john Culleton <John at wexfordpress.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 06:26:52 +0200 (CEST)
> "Christoph Schäfer" <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 04. Juli 2013 um 17:29 Uhr
> > > Von: "john Culleton" <John at wexfordpress.com>
> > > An: "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus at lists.scribus.net>
> > > Betreff: [scribus] Change existing pdf to pure b/w
> > >
> > > I have an existing pdf file that has a few spots of blue text that
> > > when you click on them take you somewhere. They are mail addresses
> > > and urls. I want to change them to just plain black for a printed
> > > book. Can this be done with a profile? Of course the underlying
> > > code is superfluous also.
> > > 
> > > Any thoughts? 
> > 
> > Why don't you just open the file in a PDF viewer like Okular and
> > print to a greyscale PDF?
> > 
> > Christoph
> > 
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> Thanks I'll try that,
> 
> JRC
> 

That didn't work. Saved it from okular with the grayscale option chosen
but the resulting file still had color in it.

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