inDesign Grayscale conversion
pechos (120 pencils) | Wed, 2006-05-24 09:26hello,
I am hoping that someone knows of a way to convert an inDesign doc containing some color into a grayscale doc? I am trying to print out some wedding programs on my desktop printer but the job keeps seizing because I am out on one of the color ink cartridges. I have set the color output in the print options to composite grayscale, but still seem to be having a problem.
I am hoping that desaturating the whole doc before sending to the printer will help me print off a proof and work around the empty cartridge error.
Any suggestions?
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You could either export a pdf as Grayscale only or export to pdf, open that in photoshop and save as Grayscale/photoshop pdf in order to print.
Nathaniel
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Dirt and Rust
Export a postscript file and distill it (or just use the PDF export in inDesign but that's bad practice) and open it in Acrobat Professional. Go to:
Tools > Print Production > Convert Colors
convert everything to grayscale in there using an approprate profile (such as Dot Gain 20%) and you will not have a grayscale PDF. This is sort of my standard workthrough for newspaper mechanicals.
Chris, Defined by Media