
Change the setting and the gray problem goes away. Composite grayscale will cause exactly what you are seeing. In my own test however, saving a document from Microsoft Publisher to PDF kept the document's red text red, i.e., no conversion to grayscale.Īlternatively, if you have Adobe Acrobat and are printing to the Adobe PDF PostScript printer driver instance to create PDF, one of the settings in the Microsoft Publisher print dialog is your choice of Composite RGB or Composite Grayscale.


If you are creating the PDF file by doing “save as PDF” from Microsoft Publisher's Save As menu item and selecting PDF as the file type, you are not using any Adobe product to produce the PDF file and as such Adobe can't do anything to help you.

By “publisher” do you mean Microsoft Publisher?Īssuming that you mean Microsoft Publisher, how are you creating the PDF file?
