[Tex/LaTex] Convert eps images to b/w

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In Windows XP, I would like to convert a coloured .eps to black and white.
If, instead of converting the .eps, I could do it for the resulting .dvi
document which contains the .eps I would still be happy.

Is there an easy way to do this, perhaps along with the dvips or the eps2eps
commands?

Any other simple way would also be appreciated of course.

Best Answer

The University of Barcelona logo in your link only seems to use one colour in addition to black and grey. If you open the eps file with your favourite text editor and search for 'newcmykcustomcolor', you will find the following colour definition.

0.91 0.43 0 0 (PANTONE 285 CVC) false newcmykcustomcolor

Replacing this with

  0 0 0 0.5 (PANTONE 285 CVC) false newcmykcustomcolor

will turn the coloured areas grey. You can use any number between 0 and 1 in place of 0.5. However, note that University logos are sometimes subject to usage restrictions, and you should check that you are not breaking these by using an adjusted version of the image.

University logo