Converting .ppt to .pdf

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Mira

When converting a presentation to a .pdf file, the defualt
printer still defaults to gray scale, and you have to
manually change it to color. Is there a way to have the
PDF writer set to be in color instead of gray scale?
Thank you
 
This does not make sence to me.

PDF writer cant make a greyscale file as there is no grey
scale conversion in PDF writer!

The whole point of a PDF file is to preserve the original
image. In fact the PDF colour management system will try
to ensure the colour is preserved as faithfully as it can.

Perhaps you have confused the print driver settings for
the printer attatched to your computer which has nothing
to do with the settings for making a PDF file.

josh
 
josh said:
This does not make sence to me.

PDF writer cant make a greyscale file as there is no grey
scale conversion in PDF writer!
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Well, Mira didn't say she was using PDF Writer.

FWIW, I had this happen just yesterday. I wanted a PDF of color
handouts, but I kept ending up with B/W. So yes, it can happen.

Mira, sorry I can't tell you how to fix that, though. The person who
needed my handouts walked by just as I was getting ready to troubleshoot
this and decided that B/W was okay.
 
When converting a presentation to a .pdf file, the defualt
printer still defaults to gray scale, and you have to
manually change it to color. Is there a way to have the
PDF writer set to be in color instead of gray scale?
Thank you
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Are you actually using Adobe PDFWriter? What versions of it and PPT do you
use?
 
Well, Mira didn't say she was using PDF Writer.
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Well ... actually ... uh ... yeah. She did. ;-)
FWIW, I had this happen just yesterday. I wanted a PDF of color
handouts, but I kept ending up with B/W. So yes, it can happen.
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PDFWriter's often a bad choice to use with PPT.
It's kind of the fast food of the PDF Biz. Fast and convenient, but it's bad
for your health, tastes lousy and you every so often get hot coffee in your
lap.

Use the other method that Adobe provides (and keeps renaming every time we turn
our backs on them!) Distiller Assistant/Distiller Driver/Adobe PDF
Printer/Whatever.

Under Win98 I had to uninstall and reinstall it and the Distiller driver every
so often. They just went wonko for no apparent reason. FWIW.
 
Adobe is 4.0 and PowerPoint 2002

I'd definitely skip PDFWriter and use the Distiller Assistant thingie, or
whatever the Distiller driver's called in Acrobat 4. I don't have it any
longer.


 
I agree that the Acrobat Distiller is the best way to go. Whenever I
convert PowerPoint to PDF, I always use the File-Print option and select the
Adobe Distiller printer. This way, you can set all of the print options as
needed in the Print dialog box. Be aware that in Acrobat 5.0, if you print
handouts, it will crop all pages 0.5 inches from all sides and you will have
to adjust that afterwards in Acrobat.

Dave Paradi
The PowerPoint Lifeguard
http://www.powerpointlifeguard.com
 
I have 87 color slides that have to be imported in Quark Xpress. Normally I would save them all as .tif, but when I do this they remain in color. Is there a way that I can universally change the color to black and white (NOT GRAYSCALE) so that when I save as .tif, they are black and white only

Theresa
 
I have 87 color slides that have to be imported in Quark Xpress. Normally
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I would save them all as .tif, but when I do this they remain in color. Is
there a way that I can universally change the color to black and white (NOT
GRAYSCALE) so that when I save as .tif, they are black and white only?

I'd start by fiddling the color scheme so that you force as many colors to
black or white *in PPT* as you can (so you have some control over it).

Then export to PNG (PowerPoint's TIF export filters are a mite iffy in some
versions) and finally use something like IrfanView (free at
www.irfanview.com) to batch convert the exported PNGs to TIF
 
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