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| Allan Adler 2005-03-17, 3:59 pm |
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I downloaded some preprints in postscript from a website. I'm afraid
to print them out on my ancient B&W Canon bubble jet printer (I use
ghostscript as the filter on my RedHat 7.1 Linux system) because the
article has some diagrams in color and I'm not sure whether the colors
will be converted to B&W or whether the printer will go into a mode
that will cause it to print out endless pages of gibberish until it
thinks it is done.
One way to avoid finding out the hard way is to have a program that
automatically suppresses all use of color in a postscript document
and replaces it with B&W. Is there a free program that does this?
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Ignorantly,
Allan Adler <ara@zurich.csail.mit.edu>
* Disclaimer: I am a guest and *not* a member of the MIT CSAIL. My actions and
* comments do not reflect in any way on MIT. Also, I am nowhere near Boston.
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| Roger Willcocks 2005-03-18, 3:59 pm |
| "Allan Adler" <ara@nestle.csail.mit.edu> wrote in message
news:y93r7ifkmor.fsf@nestle.csail.mit.edu...
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> I downloaded some preprints in postscript from a website. I'm afraid
> to print them out on my ancient B&W Canon bubble jet printer (I use
> ghostscript as the filter on my RedHat 7.1 Linux system) because the
> article has some diagrams in color and I'm not sure whether the colors
> will be converted to B&W or whether the printer will go into a mode
> that will cause it to print out endless pages of gibberish until it
> thinks it is done.
>
> One way to avoid finding out the hard way is to have a program that
> automatically suppresses all use of color in a postscript document
> and replaces it with B&W. Is there a free program that does this?
> --
> Ignorantly,
> Allan Adler <ara@zurich.csail.mit.edu>
> * Disclaimer: I am a guest and *not* a member of the MIT CSAIL. My actions
and
> * comments do not reflect in any way on MIT. Also, I am nowhere near
Boston.
A level 3 rip may do the right thing if you preface your job with
<< /ProcessColorModel /DeviceGray >> setpagedevice
--
Roger
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