Color or Grayscale?
If you create PDFs to be viewed on screen, you’ll probably want to use color. However, PDFs to be printed on offset presses must use grayscale images. So you’ll have to create two sets of images. • Never use embedded images. It makes it difficult for you to update images. Always use linked images and point to an Images folder. • Make a folder called Images-Color and a second folder called Images-Grayscale, and a third folder called Images. • Create your screen shots. These are all in color, so copy them into the Images-Color folder. Copy them into the Images folder as well. • Open your document and insert the pictures from the Images folder. • When you have finished the document and you’re ready to print, copy the color pictures into the Images-Grayscale folder. Use a graphics conversion tool to convert them into grayscale images. • Now you have two sets of pictures: one in the color folder and one in the grayscale folder. • To produce a PDF for color screens, copy the color images int
