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Do you know a possibility how to export a PDF, that has just blank space where the graphics should be? (And the other way round)

Why do I need this? I have a black and white laser printer and an inkjet printer.

I would love to use the black and white laser printer for the text, take the printed paper and put it in the inkjet printer to get perfect colorful pictures in my printings.

Or is there a other possibility?

So you want to

"...know a possibility how to export a PDF, that has just blank space where the graphics should be? (And the other way round)"

Well, I don't know how to reach that point directly. But I know a detour with three backdoors which get you were you want:

1. First, the detour: Export to PDF just as normal. The result will be no blank space where the graphics should be. No, there will be a graphics where the graphics should be.



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   Second, the first backdoor: Make sure you have a Ghostscript version v9.16 or newer installed. Then run:

   
   
   

   gs -o onlytext.pdf -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dFILTERIMAGE -dFILTERVECTOR input.pdf
   
   

   
   
   

   The -dFILTERIMAGEparameter will remove all raster images from your PDF. The -dFILTERVECTOR param will remove all vector drawings or other line art from your PDF. What remains are all the textual components on all pages.

   
   


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   Third, the second backdoor: Use the same Ghostscript and run:

   
   
   

   gs -o onlyimage.pdf -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dFILTERTEXT -dFILTERVECTOR input.pdf
   
   

   
   
   

   The -dFILTERTEXTparameter will remove all text parts from your PDF. The -dFILTERVECTOR param you're already familiar with.... What remains are the raster image components on all pages.

   
   


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   Fourth, the third backdoor: Again, run Ghostscript:

   
   
   

   gs -o onlyvector.pdf -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dFILTERTEXT -dFILTERIMAGE input.pdf
   
   

   
   
   

   You guess what this does? What remains are only the vector components on all pages.

   
   

Of course, you could also use only one of the params to remove one of the element types from the PDF and retain the other two.

Example output

Here is an example document which I use to demo the options. Admittedly, the document wasn't created with LaTeX, so bear with me...

_{Screenshot of original PDF page containing "image", "vector" and "text" elements.}

Running the following 6 commands will create all 6 possible variations of remaining contents:

 gs -o noIMG.pdf   -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dFILTERIMAGE                input.pdf

 gs -o noTXT.pdf   -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dFILTERTEXT                 input.pdf

 gs -o noVCTR.pdf  -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dFILTERVECTOR               input.pdf



 gs -o onlyTXT.pdf -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dFILTERVECTOR -dFILTERIMAGE input.pdf 

 gs -o onlyIMG.pdf -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dFILTERVECTOR -dFILTERTEXT  input.pdf

 gs -o onlyVCT.pdf -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dFILTERIMAGE  -dFILTERTEXT  input.pdf

The following image illustrates the results:

_{Top row, from left: all "text" removed; all "images" removed; all "vectors" removed. Bottom row, from left: only "text" kept; only "images" kept; only "vectors" kept.}