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missartist
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February 9, 2019
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Convert PDF to B&W [branched]

  • February 9, 2019
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ok, I made  a separate post, but have had no replies, so I do have more questions.How do i convert color PDFs to black and white in Acrobat? I am not looking to do greyscale but black and white.

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jane-e
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jane-eCommunity Expert
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February 9, 2019

missartist  wrote

Hi

You can convert a PDF to Grayscale in Print Production > Preflight > Convert Colors category > Convert to Grayscale, but that’s not what you want.

What is it that you want pure black and white? That’s a little unusual. Is it an image or a document?

If you have Photoshop you could possibly export the image or page and open in in Photoshop, then add a Threshold Adjustment layer. Let me know if you need more details on how that works.

I’ll move this to its own thread. Sorry we lost the other one!

~ Jane

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missartistAuthor
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February 10, 2019

These are documents. I did read that black and white is mostly needed for

legal documents.

Most of the stuff I have scanned now are old school papers, school

financial aid papers, and old receipts. I used color for most of these

since there is some color in them.

Is there any real reason I would need black and white? or is color good for

this stuff?

and if I need black and white is there a quick way to do this to a bunch of

PDFs in photoshop?

try67
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try67Community Expert
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February 9, 2019

There's no built-in color conversion profile that does that.

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