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17.20 Schematic .DSN "PDF Export" using GhostScript - How to configure for Black-and-White only?

UlfK

Dear Forum.

Since Microsoft W10 built-in PDF-Writer (Print->Select Device->Print to PDF) does not include all pages in a hierarchy, I tried using the Menu option "PDF-Export" which invokes GhostScript as a .PDF-write engine.

It works, but the results are in color. I have browsed through some of the GS documentation but not found the arguments used for setting B/W output.

(And I do not know if editing the argument window is transient or not - OR - If the settings are editable somewhere in an .INI-file)

Any hints on how to accomplish this?

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    This is controlled by the Postscript Driver, GhostScript just converts the Postscript to PDF. In Control Panel, Devices and Printers, select the Postscript Drive device, OrCADPS_17.2 is the one that the installer sets up, right-click>Printer Properties, then Preferences, Paper / Quality and select Black & White. (You could setup another Postscript Driver and have the Preferences set for that if you wanted to select B&W, or Color, with the Postscript Driver setting)

  • 0 in reply to oldmouldy

    Unfortunately your suggestion did not work. Editing the preferences in that driver to "A3", "Landscape" and "B/W" did not help. The output was still in color. And then, trying the Microsoft write2pdf driver did generate B/W but not all pages, and then trying PDF|Export again revealed that the settings for the OrCADPS_17.2 had reverted back to "Letter" and "Color".

    We abandoned Adobe Acrobat as .PDF writer because of increasing site license costs but that driver did work. Microsofts does NOT. I shall investigate if there is any other free .PDF printer software around...

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