[OS X TeX] How to find coloured pages automatically?

[William F. Adams]

> On 20 Jan 2005, at 2:01 AM, Guido Mocken wrote:
>
>> is there an easy way (a LaTeX package?) to find all pages of a rather  
>> long document that contain color?

This was discussed on comp.text.tex a while back.

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/ 
698032276122607f/711df2fa37f9f2e1?q=comp.text.tex+print+color+page

and On Jan 19, 2005, at 5:55 PM, Will Robertson wrote:

> If the colour appears due to TeX commands (\textcolor{blue}{some blue  
> text} for example), you could patch those commands to write out the  
> page number to an external file whenever they're used. (Before I try  
> this myself I'll see if it's actually useful to you.)

Should work, and as the thread above notes, combined w/ selectp.sty  
gets one pretty much a compleat solution.

> Otherwise (if your included figures may or may not include colour)  
> then Chris Goedde's suggestion sounds the most promising. Of course,  
> if ALL of your figures contained colour, then you could obtain their  
> page number from the .lof file.

Nice shortcut that.

I believe one could also derive appropriate .pdfs using scripting in  
Enfocus PitStop, but that's kind if pricey. Callas' PDF output pro is  
also useful for this sort of thing.

High-end PostScript RIPs have this as a feature, so if it's a print  
shop handling this they may be able to handle it automatically.

William

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