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    Counting color vs. black pages? Participant , /t5/acrobat-discussions/counting-color-vs-black-pages/td-p/11074414 Apr 23, 2020 Apr 23, 2020

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    Does Acrobat Pro (or if not, InDesign or within Fiery Command Workstation) have a way to count all the pages of a book and give me a report of how many black pages and color pages a document has? This is important when using a printer that charges by clicks. The only way I currently can do this is to run a book on the printer first and use the onscreen counter on the printer to know the number of color and black pages. This of course means I am wasting a printed book when I am only trying to put a price quote together first.

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    8 Replies 8 Community Expert , /t5/acrobat-discussions/counting-color-vs-black-pages/m-p/11082465#M252844 Apr 26, 2020 Apr 26, 2020

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    I believe you can accomplish this using javascript to create an action with the Action Wizard tool.

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    /t5/acrobat-discussions/counting-color-vs-black-pages/m-p/11773813#M294611 Jan 22, 2021 Jan 22, 2021

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    In Arobat DC use preflight tool-> digital printing (color)

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    /t5/acrobat-discussions/counting-color-vs-black-pages/m-p/11773937#M294614 Jan 22, 2021 Jan 22, 2021

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    Unfortunately there is no standardised way to determine whether a page has colour. For example, which of these are colour

    - a page using only DeviceGray (shades of greyscale)

    - a page using CMYK, but only with markings in the K channel

    - a page using CMYK, only in K, but using a different CMYK profile so the colour is converted (or might not be converted, depending on the printer)

    - a page using RGB which has all the R=G=B values equal

    - a page which, once converted as needed for that device, and rendered, sets only black ink

    Etc. Etc. Even when a printer has different routing or charging for colour vs black only, you cannot know exactly how the decision will be made.