publish to pdf

[Donald P]

Using publisher 2007 I wanted to publish to pdf or save as a pdf. I had text
that is colored and when I did the convert the text came out in shades of
gray. Is there a setting I need to set so it will convert in color? All clip
art and photos were in color, only text was affected and most of the text was
done as a headline. Hope someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Are you using the Microsoft save as PDF add-in? This has been an issue off and
on. Try a different converter. There are many free converters around,
www.primopdf.com is mentioned here.

 

[Charles R]

You must set a color printer as your default printer even if you don't
actually print to the color printer in order for the "Publish as PDF or
XPS..." plug-in to output colored text.

 

[bj]

You must set a color printer as your default printer even if you don't
actually print to the color printer in order for the "Publish as PDF or
XPS..." plug-in to output colored text.

Thanks for that tip.
I've had a color printer for years, & using Acrobat, so I never had any
trouble with color pdfs, but it never would have occurred to me that you
*had* to "use" a color printer to get a color pdf.

Since I'm sending copy to a printer for output in b/w, I make the pdf color
but print grayscale from the pdf to make sure I'll get the end product I'm
thinking of (or at least as close as I can get with my skill level,
particularly on graphics). I almost never have any color text anyway -- I
make even the web links black so they'll be easier to read when printed out
in grayscale.
bj

 

[Vernel Oberes]

I have been wondering all these months why my colored fonts converted to gray when I published as PDF. The other PDF printers (CutePDF, Primo, etc.) compromised the quality of the graphics, as well ending up with a huge file size.

I changed the default printer from monochrome laser to inkjet, and BAM!-- colored fonts and smooth graphics. Perfect output!

Thank you!!!!!!