It is currently not possible to export a color report as a greyscale or black and white PDF. I will add this to our list of possible enhancements for a later release. Thanks for the feedback.
Yes, the space savings for vectors (text, shapes, lines, etc.) would be minimal when converted to greyscale, ~hundreds of bytes at best.
A larger amount of space could be saved when exporting greyscale images (bmp, png, jpeg, etc). If the reports contain numerous large unique images, a significant amount of space could be saved over thousands of reports.
One option would be to convert each image manually or in code and load them dynamically based on which export format is being used.
Another would be to place two images on each report (overlapping), one color, and one greyscale. Then toggle the visibility based on the export device.
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It is currently not possible to export a color report as a greyscale or black and white PDF. I will add this to our list of possible enhancements for a later release. Thanks for the feedback.
Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com
thanks,
indeed, this is a feature request by one of my customers.
They want to save space when archiving their PDFs.
I said the impact would be rather small. But they archive thousands of PDFs.
So it would be a nice feature.
Yes, the space savings for vectors (text, shapes, lines, etc.) would be minimal when converted to greyscale, ~hundreds of bytes at best.
A larger amount of space could be saved when exporting greyscale images (bmp, png, jpeg, etc). If the reports contain numerous large unique images, a significant amount of space could be saved over thousands of reports.
One option would be to convert each image manually or in code and load them dynamically based on which export format is being used.
Another would be to place two images on each report (overlapping), one color, and one greyscale. Then toggle the visibility based on the export device.
Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com