You can choose to convert all images to grayscale for your PDF, by selecting “Grayscale Images” in the “Configure Export Settings” menu item on your project dashboard.
Grayscale images in the PDF
Written by The Hederis Team
Getting Started
Step-by-Step Guide
- Step-by-Step Guide: Introduction
- Step-by-Step Part 1: Setup
- Step-by-Step Part 2: Upload
- Step-by-Step Part 3: Structure and Text Edits
- Step-by-Step Part 4: Design
- Step-by-Step Part 5: Build
File Management, Uploads, and Downloads
- Upload a Manuscript
- Exporting files, and more about the Export menu
- IDML exports
- Create a Named Backup
Working with Book Text
- About Styles
- Paragraphs, Wrappers, Sections, and Inlines
- Styles and the Edit Text Pane
- Editing with Microsoft Word and Using Word Styles
- Add a Paragraph
- Add a Wrapper
- Add a Section
- Add or Delete an Inline
- Add a Hyperlink
- Using Footnotes
- Automatically Generate a Table of Contents
- Set up a Table of Contents Manually
- Include content only in the PDF or EPUB
Design
- Design Templates
- Using Different Template for the PDF and EPUB Files
- The top-right toolbar: Single View, Guides, Grid, and Run Layout
- Working with the Baseline Grid
- The left sidebar: Design tools
- General Page Design
- Create Custom Hyphenation Patterns
- Page Templates
- Sections & Text
- Designing SECT elements (sections)
- Designing BOX elements (wrappers)
- Designing text paragraphs
- Center a paragraph, image, or other block element
- Use a Custom Font
- Use the Limit These Changes menu to adjust the design of only certain paragraphs or elements
- Understanding Design Overrides and How to Remove or Change Them
- Automatically insert TOC page numbers
- Add printer marks
- Add a Watermark in the PDF Margins or Behind Text
- Add special layout instructions
- Upload a custom design template
- Add custom CSS
Paging
- Force a Chapter to Start on a Recto (Right) Page
- Adjust letter spacing by tightening and loosening text (PDF-only)
Images
- Image File Requirements and Best Practices: Filename, Format, Image Size
- Types of images: block and inline
- Add a block image
- Add an inline image
- Images with captions, sources, or other extra content
- Add ALT text for an image
- Replace or Delete an Image
- Upload a cover file
- Include full-page images in the PDF
- Resize an image in the design preview
- Grayscale images in the PDF
Validation and Preflight
- EPUB Validation
- Font Warnings in the PDF, and how to fix them
- Convert an EPUB to MOBI or KF8 for the Kindle
- PDF preflight and prepress
Groups and Billing
- Add Your Billing Information
- About Groups
- Create a Group
- Set Up Billing for Your Group
- Invite a Collaborator
How Do I…
- Create a Hanging Indent
- Add an Ornamental Image to a Line Space Paragraph
- Add an Ornamental Image on the Same Line as a Chapter Title Paragraph
- Add Roman Text After Italicized Text, in a Locked Chapter
Appendix
Getting Started
Step-by-Step Guide
- Step-by-Step Guide: Introduction
- Step-by-Step Part 1: Setup
- Step-by-Step Part 2: Upload
- Step-by-Step Part 3: Structure and Text Edits
- Step-by-Step Part 4: Design
- Step-by-Step Part 5: Build
File Management, Uploads, and Downloads
- Upload a Manuscript
- Exporting files, and more about the Export menu
- IDML exports
- Create a Named Backup
Working with Book Text
- About Styles
- Paragraphs, Wrappers, Sections, and Inlines
- Styles and the Edit Text Pane
- Editing with Microsoft Word and Using Word Styles
- Add a Paragraph
- Add a Wrapper
- Add a Section
- Add or Delete an Inline
- Add a Hyperlink
- Using Footnotes
- Automatically Generate a Table of Contents
- Set up a Table of Contents Manually
- Include content only in the PDF or EPUB
Design
- Design Templates
- Using Different Template for the PDF and EPUB Files
- The top-right toolbar: Single View, Guides, Grid, and Run Layout
- Working with the Baseline Grid
- The left sidebar: Design tools
- General Page Design
- Create Custom Hyphenation Patterns
- Page Templates
- Sections & Text
- Designing SECT elements (sections)
- Designing BOX elements (wrappers)
- Designing text paragraphs
- Center a paragraph, image, or other block element
- Use a Custom Font
- Use the Limit These Changes menu to adjust the design of only certain paragraphs or elements
- Understanding Design Overrides and How to Remove or Change Them
- Automatically insert TOC page numbers
- Add printer marks
- Add a Watermark in the PDF Margins or Behind Text
- Add special layout instructions
- Upload a custom design template
- Add custom CSS
Paging
- Force a Chapter to Start on a Recto (Right) Page
- Adjust letter spacing by tightening and loosening text (PDF-only)
Images
- Image File Requirements and Best Practices: Filename, Format, Image Size
- Types of images: block and inline
- Add a block image
- Add an inline image
- Images with captions, sources, or other extra content
- Add ALT text for an image
- Replace or Delete an Image
- Upload a cover file
- Include full-page images in the PDF
- Resize an image in the design preview
- Grayscale images in the PDF
Validation and Preflight
- EPUB Validation
- Font Warnings in the PDF, and how to fix them
- Convert an EPUB to MOBI or KF8 for the Kindle
- PDF preflight and prepress
Groups and Billing
- Add Your Billing Information
- About Groups
- Create a Group
- Set Up Billing for Your Group
- Invite a Collaborator
How Do I…
- Create a Hanging Indent
- Add an Ornamental Image to a Line Space Paragraph
- Add an Ornamental Image on the Same Line as a Chapter Title Paragraph
- Add Roman Text After Italicized Text, in a Locked Chapter
