Adobe Distiller: Generating Black and White PDF file

[okitamura]

Could someone tell me how to turn colored PDF into Black and white PDF? I do not want to use Image option because then PDF will no longer have tags and I cannot search for anything in the document. I have tried everything reasonable but Distiller keeps outputting colored PDFs. There must be an easy solution for this.
Thank you in advance for your input.

 

[jmgalvin]

Open in Acrobat pro and go to File menu/Print.

In print dialogue pick Adobe pdf as printer and then click on the Advanced button in the print window. In next window, under Color, select composite gray. Click ok, and in sobsewuenty print window give doc a name differnet than the orignal and pick a plase to save to.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4