Designing PDF for full colour screen and eco friendly printing

[sama43872010]

Hi, so ive been asked to design an interactive pdf via indd - not a problem, but the client wants it in full colour for screen viewing and then to be downloadable for home printing with little to no images / colour so they can be ECO friendly.

Is there a particular way i should approach this type of project? Can i build this into the one document or will i need to strip the images and colour work from the original and save it as another 'eco print' document? Any help would be apreciated!

Sam

[Mike Witherell]

You don't really have to do anything.

In the printer dialog box printing a PDF out of Acrobat, there are two switches to turn on:

Print in B/W

and

Save toner

[rob day]

You can convert the pages to grayscale via the Destination in the Output tab. Try using the PDF/X-4 preset with the destination set to gray or Black Ink profile: