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Is it possible to include in a pdf with colours (no images but some simple vector graphics created by TikZ) also information for a black an white print (or a print in general), ie. defining that a blue colored text showed be printed pitch black instead of the greyish graystyle of blue?

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My aim is to have a single pdf (not *.tex) file that includes information that the colours should be printed black instead gray/blue if the person chooses to print the file but on the screen all colours should appear a intended.

Jonas Stein
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John-Dole-23
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    You can simply set a boolean switch using \newif; e.g.: \newif\ifcolour and then \ifcolour <put "colour" commands here> \else <black and white commands here> \fi, then process with either \colourtrue or \colourfalse (which will be the default). You can do it all from the command line similar to how I outlined in this answer. – jon Sep 06 '15 at 01:50
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    And there is also the ocg-p package, and ocgtools, ocgx.... – jon Sep 06 '15 at 01:55
  • that's not what i'm looking for -- it has to be the same pdf file. my aim is to send a single pdf file to another person and if the person to print the pdf file all trhe blue colours should be printed pitch black instead of gray! – John-Dole-23 Sep 06 '15 at 12:39
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    I see (maybe: did you try the OCG packages? [I haven't.]). So this now sounds more like a printer problem. Why aren't you simply instructing your printer to print in black and not grayscale (or RGB, or...)? This seems far easier than making the PDF "be" in two colours at the same time and which also somehow also communicates to the printer that only one of these two colours should be printed. In fact, I believe this is the advice Adobe gives. – jon Sep 06 '15 at 16:51
  • Is there a way to use hyperref or an other package to pre-set the printing option of acrobat to b/w? I had a look at the hyperref documentation but it seems there is no option for the color. – John-Dole-23 Sep 06 '15 at 19:22
  • hyperref has many options for colour, which is how I'd recommend using the \newif idea (e.g., with the hidelinks option), but I don't think it can set printer options -- which seems rather far outside the purpose of the package. Anyway, would an Adobe-specific answer be of much value? It wouldn't help me: I don't have it installed on my phone, tablet, or computer. – jon Sep 06 '15 at 20:10
  • hyperref has some options to pre-set the pdf reader including duplex, a4paper and to pre-set the printing option to "do not scale" (and even more to change the appearers of the pdf reader like turn on/off menu bars etc ) unfortunately there is no option to pre-set the printer to b/w – John-Dole-23 Sep 06 '15 at 20:27
  • Indeed. I think you are expecting quite a bit from hyperref, which isn't really about printing at all (and of course the default behaviour is supposed to produce the "link boxes", which are not supposed to be printed), and certainly not about whether diagrams are in colour or not. I wish I could help, but I still think this is fairly easily solved from the command line.... – jon Sep 06 '15 at 23:37

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