Ken Hjulstrom Posted August 9, 2021 Posted August 9, 2021 I've prepared a 45-page document in which about half of the pages contain color (non-black) elements, while the rest of the pages contain black or greyscale elements. I'm planning to print this document at an office supply store where self-serve copy machines are available. Since I'll be bringing in the document in digital format, and since the copy machines aren't intelligent enough to be able to detect (and bill) only the higher per-page for color pages instead of billing the color rate for all pages of the document, I'm wondering if there's any way that Publisher might have a PDF export function that would allow me to export all of the greyscale pages into one PDF and all of the color images into another, so I could easily print the monochrome PDF as 100% monochrome output and the color PDF as 100% color. I'm aware that I can export the entire PDF and then manually move the individual pages around to create a PDF containing only the greyscale pages and another containing only the color pages, but having a export feature that could do this automatically would be helpful, especially for long documents. Thanks, Ken Quote
Old Bruce Posted August 9, 2021 Posted August 9, 2021 Not easy no, no automatic button. Make your document. Start new sections (And name them appropriately) at each change from Colour/B&W to the other and back again. Make a colour copy of the document and make a B&W copy too. Delete all the colour pages from the B&W copy. Change the Section Numbering so it follows the original numbers. Do the same for the Colour copy, delete all the B&W and fix the section page numbers. Export Greyscale and Colour (as per the office supply store) PDFs. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
Ken Hjulstrom Posted August 9, 2021 Author Posted August 9, 2021 Hi Old Bruce, Thanks for the information. The use of sections is interesting, but that approach wouldn't have worked very well in my case, as the document I was working with contained a number of forms and documents, most of which were greyscale, but I had added instructional text and colored outline boxes to highlight particular areas of the document, so the coloring was randomly scattered across the document, with 18 monochrome pages and 27 color pages. I ended up using Acrobat to make two copies of the original document, as you suggested, and then removed the color pages from the "Greyscale" PDF and removed the greyscale pages from the "Color" PDF, which worked. In hindsight, it might have been easier if I had used the PDF export of Publisher, and entered a comma-delimited list of page number in the "Pages" field, first entering the list of greyscale page numbers, exporting, and then doing the same with the list of color pages. I might try this approach next time, although it doesn't scale very well as documents get much larger than the one I'm working with. Thanks again, Ken Old Bruce 1 Quote
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