Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Carlos Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: 100% black, as required by a book printer Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2017 19:37:08 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 35 Message-ID: <20170730193708.23cbee37@samara.DOMA> References: <5f377985-8e00-4f6c-aa8b-bfd4d7a2874a@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="8fa9b536bb363e846c7279404b7e3551"; logging-data="24384"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19urVVBcZi3BhESI9h+Jn5E/yGx2TDtG44=" X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.15.0-dirty (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8KMy7/s2MFxqzRIppMr0AFuH9CQ= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.postscript:3154 [jdaw1 , 2017-07-30 05:42] > Sending a book to be printed. Because of an unwise decision ages ago it= =E2=80=99s in > Microsoft Word. (Moving 207 bookmarks, 3k index entries, and 700 pictures= to > a different program would introduce too many errors.) >=20 > A candidate printer has written:=20 > > the text in your file is made up of percentages of CMYK and should be 1= 00% > > black =20 >=20 > I had been printing to PostScript and distilling with Adobe Distiller XI.= =20 >=20 > I=E2=80=99m willing to semi-manually change the PostScript (perhaps repla= ce all =E2=80=9C0 0 > 0 setcolor=E2=80=9D with something else). I=E2=80=99m willing to distill = with Adobe, or > GhostScript (the latest version of which I=E2=80=99ll probably have to co= mpile > myself) using any recommended settings. >=20 > 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 preamb= le, all show* operators so that they set the color first. Something like /show { 0 0 0 1 setcmykcolor systemdict /show get exec } def etc... --=20