Re: PDF to PDF (gs?): rich RGB black to plain K (CMYK) black?

From	ole.hoppe@gmail.com
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Subject	Re: PDF to PDF (gs?): rich RGB black to plain K (CMYK) black?
Date	2012-01-26 12:58 -0800
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Hi Helge

Found the solution in the answer sdaau posted on stackoverflow (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6248563/converting-any-pdf-to-black-k-only-cmyk/).

After converting original rgb pdf to ps with pdftops, convert ps to cmyk pdf with ghostscript pdfwrite first prepending sdaau's HackRGB-cmyk-inv.ps (http://sdaaubckp.sourceforge.net/post/ps/HackRGB-cmyk-inv.ps), then prepending your forceblack.ps with the "true setoverprint" extension. This will overprint black text on existing background color:

pdftops -level2 test.pdf test.ps
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sOutputFile=test-cmyk-k-overprint.pdf HackRGB-cmyk-inv.ps forceblack.ps test.ps

Thanks again,
Ole

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