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Re: 100% black, as required by a book printer

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[jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com>, 2017-07-30 05:42]
> Sending a book to be printed. Because of an unwise decision ages ago it’s in
> Microsoft Word. (Moving 207 bookmarks, 3k index entries, and 700 pictures to
> a different program would introduce too many errors.)
> 
> A candidate printer has written: 
> > the text in your file is made up of percentages of CMYK and should be 100%
> > black  
> 
> I had been printing to PostScript and distilling with Adobe Distiller XI. 
> 
> I’m willing to semi-manually change the PostScript (perhaps replace all “0 0
> 0 setcolor” with something else). I’m willing to distill with Adobe, or
> GhostScript (the latest version of which I’ll probably have to compile
> myself) using any recommended settings.
> 
> Fine peeps of the PostScript forum: please, can this be rescued at or near
> the PostScript level?

If the text is only black, you can try redefining, in the document's preamble,
all show* operators so that they set the color first. Something like

/show { 0 0 0 1 setcmykcolor systemdict /show get exec } def

etc...
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100% black, as required by a book printer jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2017-07-30 05:42 -0700
  Re: 100% black, as required by a book printer Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> - 2017-07-30 08:24 -0600
    Re: 100% black, as required by a book printer jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2017-07-30 12:31 -0700
      Re: 100% black, as required by a book printer luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2017-07-30 15:47 -0700
  Re: 100% black, as required by a book printer Carlos <carlos@cvkm.cz> - 2017-07-30 19:37 +0200
  Re: 100% black, as required by a book printer ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2017-07-31 08:58 +0100
    Re: 100% black, as required by a book printer jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2017-07-31 14:37 -0700
      Re: 100% black, as required by a book printer jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2017-08-02 12:15 -0700
        Re: 100% black, as required by a book printer jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2017-08-29 15:15 -0700
          Re: 100% black, as required by a book printer jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2017-08-31 09:36 -0700
            Re: 100% black, as required by a book printer jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2017-11-13 14:16 -0800
              Re: 100% black, as required by a book printer jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2017-11-14 15:02 -0800
                Re: 100% black, as required by a book printer jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2017-11-16 15:57 -0800

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