I have been asked to supply a black/white copy of some pdf's.
I presume this is for decreased size and for those who do not own a color printer.
Anyways, I have 2 questions regarding this:
-is there a way to make grayscale pfs with pdf2latex (what command if there is)
-Im using the latex- ps- pdf route via ghostscript and added commands for grayscale output, however this is as fast as a snale in hibernation. Is there a way to speed it up? I used this:
Arguments for the ghostscript postprocessing in the profile I made:
-sPAPERSIZE=a4 -sColorConversionStrategy=Gray -dProcessColorModel=/DeviceGray -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="%bm.pdf" -c save pop -f "%bm.ps"
it looks nice and grey though but took like 5 mins to build.
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Grayscale output with latex (via GS)
Try \selectcolormodel from the xcolor package:
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Code, edit and compile here:
\documentclass{article}\usepackage{xcolor}\selectcolormodel{gray}\begin{document}\textcolor{blue}{\rule{5cm}{2cm}}\textcolor{yellow}{\rule{5cm}{2cm}}\end{document}
Re: Grayscale output with latex (via GS)
This doesnt work for figures Im using, just text.