Need to import colour powerpoint diagrams into QX4 as grayscale as part of a grayscale printing job. Any easy way without changing each part of diagram to a shade of gray in powerpoint? I don't have much experience with powerpoint, if a diagram is created there in grayscale, can you have confidence sending your quark file to the printers? Lots of diagrams to pull in, an easy solution would be very welcome!
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import colour powerpoint diagram as grayscale into QX 4
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Thanks jimoblak
Client will be filling in my template with their own files. They don't unfortunately have Illustrator or anything very useful, but could probably be persuaded into Acrobat Professional. I found an option in there to change the pdf to grayscale - well it was a choice of dot gains and gammas, so I tried one. Would this be considered a kosher grayscale file by quark?
Client will be filling in my template with their own files. They don't unfortunately have Illustrator or anything very useful, but could probably be persuaded into Acrobat Professional. I found an option in there to change the pdf to grayscale - well it was a choice of dot gains and gammas, so I tried one. Would this be considered a kosher grayscale file by quark?
Depending on what they're doing with the thing you can Save As PNG from Powerpoint. Click on the options box and select at lest 1200dpi In the Advanced Resolution settings.
You can then open in Photoshop (use the Open command in Photoshop) and go to Image menu/Mode and select grayscale. It cn then be saved as tiff or eps for insertion into Q4. You can use any image editing app that supports high resolution and converts to grayscale
If you have Acrobat, you can print a postscript file. Choose Adobe pdf as the ppd and postscript as the printer. In the Output pane under color select Composite gray and print the postscript. Distill the thing, open in Acrobat and Save As eps or tiff.
Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4
You can then open in Photoshop (use the Open command in Photoshop) and go to Image menu/Mode and select grayscale. It cn then be saved as tiff or eps for insertion into Q4. You can use any image editing app that supports high resolution and converts to grayscale
If you have Acrobat, you can print a postscript file. Choose Adobe pdf as the ppd and postscript as the printer. In the Output pane under color select Composite gray and print the postscript. Distill the thing, open in Acrobat and Save As eps or tiff.
Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4
If you are sending the files to a printing co.
Keep the PP files in 4/c and your printer will rip the files in composite grayscale.
This is the same as converting a 4/c image to graycsale in photoshop.
Thom
The longest jounney starts with the first step.
Keep the PP files in 4/c and your printer will rip the files in composite grayscale.
This is the same as converting a 4/c image to graycsale in photoshop.
Thom
The longest jounney starts with the first step.
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