Some journals still will not let you use color figures without extracting a ransom.
This is a problem because other than print versions of journal articles, all other fora (presentations, webpages, posters, online journal articles) in which figures are presented, are color-agnostic.
In fact, there it is often desirable to present things in color.
I recently found a GPLed perl tool pscol which lets you quickly make grayscale versions of color EPS figures. You can easily weave it into a shell script to make grayscale versions of an entire directory of color EPS figures, very quickly.
The usage is very simple:
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This is a problem because other than print versions of journal articles, all other fora (presentations, webpages, posters, online journal articles) in which figures are presented, are color-agnostic.
In fact, there it is often desirable to present things in color.
I recently found a GPLed perl tool pscol which lets you quickly make grayscale versions of color EPS figures. You can easily weave it into a shell script to make grayscale versions of an entire directory of color EPS figures, very quickly.
The usage is very simple:
pscol [flags] infilename outfilenameFor simple files the results are decent, for example:
Allowed flags are:
-h print this message and exit.
-gray convert RGB colorscale to grayscale.
-0gray convert RGB colorscale to grayscale (simple).
-cmyk convert RGB to CMYK.
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2 comments:
simplest solution is to use AdobePDFreader and use print command with printInGrayScale checked.
Sure that would work. But if you had to convert 10 or 10,000 images, then having a command line option is useful.
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