Re: Changing colors for print vs. online?

[Scott Turner <sturner@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
>I have a mid-sized (~500pg) manual with
>the usual cross-referencing. Any xref that
>is inserted manually (as opposed to the TOC
>and IX) uses blue text -- presumably so
>that the link shows up nicely in the PDF
>version, without those ugly boxes.
>
>However, this particular blue doesn't
>print nicely on a B/W laser (600dpi).
>In fact, it's fairly hard to read, and
>I'm concerned that this is a problem for
>customers.
>
>I was wondering if anybody knows of
>pdfmark/postscript magic that might let me
>have the xref links appear blue when the
>PDF is viewed, but print as black on
>any printer. Ideally this would occur
>without any end-user intervention.


Change the color of the blue to one that has more black or red in it. 
Purple works ok, so does a very dark blue.

Scott

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