Lightning Brain Color2Gray for InDesign 1.0.6 review

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Lightning Brain Color2Gray for InDesign allows you to convert placed color photos to grayscale without modifying the original color image.

License: Freeware
OS: Mac OS X
File size: 2066K
Developer: Rorohiko Ltd.
Price: $0.00
Updated: 29 Aug 2006
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Lightning Brain Color2Gray for InDesign allows you to convert placed color photos to grayscale without modifying the original color image.

Sometimes you want a particular picture to be output as a grayscale image, yet the original image is in color. You could open it in Photoshop and convert it to grayscale, but you can instead also use this plug-in. The original image is not changed and remains in color, yet it is output as a grayscale image. The gray image will only render on the black (K) plate.

This is a hybrid plug-in collection: part is written in C++, part is written in ExtendScript/JavaScript. As a result, it has three plug-in components.
The three plug-ins that need to be present for this to work are:
- an up-to-date Active Page Item Runtime or equivalent
- a Color2Gray.spln scripted plug-in (with .spln file name extension). All platforms share the same scripted plug-in file. On Windows this file carries a generic icon.
- a platform-specific Color2Gray plug-in (with .pln file name extension; the name will differ for CS/CS2/Mac/Win - it's Color2Gray.pln)

Yes, you'll need two plug-ins that have "Color2Gray" in their file name: one is a scripted plug-in, the other is a regular plug-in.
Make sure you install the correct plug-ins for your version of InDesign. InDesign CS Plug-Ins and InDesign CS2 Plug-Ins are mutually incompatible, and Windows Plug-Ins don't work so well on Mac.
To make it easier, we've prepared ready-to-copy sets of plug-ins - you can dig into the appropriate disk image or folder and copy the three items from there to your plug-ins folder.
Please read the Remarks below - our software evolves over time, and you might need to separately update some of the individual plug-ins.

What's New:
Fixed issue where some grayed images would still print in color.

Requirements:
Adobe InDesign CS or CS2.

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