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Re: Background Printing


  • Subject: Re: Background Printing
  • From: waynemelrose <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 07:39:46 +1000

So does anyone have any thoughts on how to background print  PDF as Greyscale, or background convert a PDF to greyscale? ( without the use of Ghostscript :) )

Thanks


> On 19 Aug 2014, at 8:29 am, waynemelrose <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I’ve found some handy code to background print a file. In this case, PDF.
>
> For those that don’t know, here’s how..
>
> tell application “PrinterName” # the name of your printer as it would appear in your dock as it’s printing a file
> 	print “Path:to:file.pdf” without print dialog
> 	quit
> end tell
>
>
> GREAT! Works a charm..
>
> My challenge is to get it to print as Greyscale.
>
> Two options as I see it, convert the file before it gets there, or just find a way to tell it to print without colour. I did try adding with properties { color : no } which compiles although seems to be ignored.
>
> Any thoughts would be welcome.
>
> This is to role out to a lot of machines, so for the moment I’m trying to avoid other tools, presets (although this could be an option) and anything that’s not native to OS X 10.8.* or above.
>
> Thanks for any input
>
> Wayne
>
>
>
>
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