I can't imagine that Adobe really forgot this but maybe they did: There is no check box to print color-pdf files in monochrome. Result is a very fuzzy printout with some information in certain colors completely missing. For CAD drawings that's decidedly uncool.A web search brought up oodles of routines to strip color out of pdf. But in this day and age one has to be careful with downloads. Anyone know how to print in monochrome, or which converter program is safe?PDFCreator has a monochrome switch but when trying to print to that from within Acrobat Reader it crashes.-- Regards, Joerg"gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam.Use another domain or send PM.

PDFs print color in greyscale automatically when sent to amonochromatic print device or driver. because ANY color print job sent toANY (decent) laser printer will get handled as shades of greyautomatically... BY THE PRINTER DRIVER, NOT THE APP SENDING THE PRINTJOB. Also the PRINT setting dialog FOR YOUR PRINTER, NOT the PDF reader arewhere you should be looking. So, you either have a 100% shit printer, or the drivers for it areshit. Don't blame the reader, blame the dope doing the reading. Yeah, there must be thousands of dopes just like you per millioncomputer literate folks. Try printing it to a printer that is at least a few step abovebottom-of-the-line.

Print color PDF on monochrome laser?

Apr 28, 2009 41 Replies

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Bob Larter 17 years ago

Now you can download all the PostScript books as PDFs, from the Adobe website.

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Bob Larter 17 years ago

(Please pardon the late response, I haven't the time to read SED lately.)

The nearest equivalent that I can think of is Brodie's "Thinking FORTH":

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