How to Make PDF B&W

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Sometimes, the team will ask for an IAP with a cover page (or other page within the IAP) in color ink, with the rest of the document in B&W. To do this, extract the page(s) you’d like to have in color, making sure to select “delete after extraction”. Save color pages as a separate file. Make the remaining pages in the document B&W. Combine the extracted color pages with the B&W document and re-order so the color pages are in the correct place. For more information on how to extract pages, re-order pages, and combine PDFs, see How to Combine a PDF and the “Re-Order Pages” and “Extract Pages”section of Organize Pages Tool. This section will go over how to make a PDF B&W.


Optimize PDF #

  • Open PDF you’d like to make B&W. Click “Optimize PDF” from tool list. 

Pre-Flight #

  • Choose “Preflight” from toolbar. 
  • In Pre-Flight, double-click “Convert to grayscale”. 
  • Name new file and choose where to save it. Click “Save”.