I'm working with a printer for theses and dissertations. I receive the PDF files from our graduate students and pass them along. I'm responsible for checking that the document meets the needs of the printer and billing the students appropriately. I'm using Adobe Acrobat X Pro, and am fairly savvy with the pre-flight profiles (creating and running), but I'm not a designer or printer.
Recently, the printer informed me that our students creating PDF files from Word are actually creating what they consider color documents because black is an RGB color from a Word document. I did see in Word that I can use the "High Quality Print" conversion setting to make the text black from the start, but I'm dealing with the final PDF file more often.
They gave me instructions on how to use the "Convert Colors" command to convert the document (or specific pages) to the Gray Gamma 2.2 profile so those pages would be in black and white - see screenshot:
I then submit the document to their web page, where it tells me the count of color pages. I have two problems:
1. For some documents, even after I convert all pages to the profile above, their preflight tool (they use pit stop through their web site, I think ), tells me that some pages are still in color.
2. I can't seem to find a consistent way to count color pages in Acrobat. I've created a pre-flight profile (seee screenshot below), but my results never match theirs (unless it's a raw PDF file and every page is in color). Am I missing an option? I don't really know what spot colors are, so maybe that's an issue?
What I want to be able to do is:
1. Provide consistent instructions to our students on how to fix their documents (perhaps create a pre-flight profile or droplet for them to put their PDF file into).
AND
2. Count the color pages in their document accurately. The printer bills per the page, and there is a differential between color and black and white printing.
Any help would be appreciated.