Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Grayscale output with latex (via GS)

[Faust]

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.

[phi]

Try \selectcolormodel from the xcolor package:

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{xcolor}

\selectcolormodel{gray}

\begin{document}

\textcolor{blue}{\rule{5cm}{2cm}}
\textcolor{yellow}{\rule{5cm}{2cm}}

\end{document}

[Faust]

This doesnt work for figures Im using, just text.