Colour Conversion in CS2 Indesign

[mattmills@adobeforums.com]

In CS2 Illustrator there is a tool under filter for converting colours to CMYK/RGB/Grayscale?

Is there a similar function in CS2 Indesign?

[Bob Levine]

No.

Bob

[rob_day@adobeforums.com]

You change individual colors to RGB, CMYK, or Lab: if the color is a swatch, double click the swatch in the Swatches palette and change its Color Mode. If the color is not a swatch you can change its mode from the Color palette, or you select Add Unamed Colors from the Swatches palette and do it there.

If you have a lot of colors it can be done via a script. ID has no grayscale space, but a script can convert colors to black only percentages. Here are 3 scripts for converting all colors to CMYK, RGB, or Grayscale (0|0|0|K):

<http://www.evansday.com/scripts/ChangeColorMode.hqx>

The grayscale script gets the luminosity of the color and converts that to a K percentage, so its not a color managed conversion.

Rob