[usadaytrader]

Thanks for your help blue dog. I am still having problems. Let me expain the whole thing. I have a inkjet printer, and I am trying to make it print a blue instead of black. I am not sure whethere I can change the settings in the program or in the printer driver.

The file I made in Adobe Indesign is all black and white. My job is to make it into a pdf file, and place text fields in it. The purpose is for the secretaries to fill out the document on the computer and print it in the blue color.

Here are my difficulties

1) How do I make the pdf file blue? I changed the color properties in Indesign but it just makes the text all blurry.

What I want: I basically what to convert my black and white indesign document into a blue pdf file. Plz help if u can

[MikeM32]

Can't you just make all the black elements in your original InDesign file blue and then export that?

I just tried it here with my InDesign 1.5.2 and it worked. The only oddball thing I noticed was the "blue" looked alot darker after exporting to PDF. This may be due to some export option(s) I didn't have set correctly. I never tried it before through InDesign otherwise.

If you owned the full version of Acrobat (not just the reader) another option would be to print to file. This would produce a Postscript file of your artwork. The Postscript file can then be converted to PDF format via Acrobat Distiller. This may produce more accurate color result(s).

If you don't own Acrobat though, that won't be of much help. All I could suggest is make a blue and white copy of your file and then trying to adjust the PDF export options in InDesign itself. There's gotta be some way of getting the color accurate.

Normally I'm working in QuarkXPress, so I'm much more familiar with making PDF's from that application. I believe the only catch being you must own the full version of Acrobat to make them.

Good luck

Mike