Changing Font Colour - Help!

[mrs_overall]

I use a courier firm for delivering parcels and once I have paid I have to print off the bar coded address label. The black ink on my printer won't work (despite a new cartridge) so I hit on the idea of changing the font colour. I saved the label to documents but I cannot work out how to change the font colour. It is an Adobe Acrobat document. Any suggestions please?

[jno]

I would have thought if you just tell it to print in colour, it'll come out all black anyway, because that's what you get by mixing colours together?

[mrs_overall]

jno, I have tried that. The coloured parts of the label come out ok but what should be printed in black comes out blank

[jno]

hm.

ok, sorry, I can't help then. I hope your next answer is from someone who actually knows what they're talking about!

[mrs_overall]

thanks anyway jno

[murraymints]

Do you have a tools option at top of page ?...look in that for font ..

[mrs_overall]

Under the View option is a Tools option but there is no arrow at the side of it and nothing click on

[mrs_overall]

I think I will admit defeat and go to a friends house to borrow their printer

[tonyav]

Hit it with a 2lb ball pein engineers hammer.

[mrs_overall]

Morning tony.
I have just checked my handbag and I am afraid I don't have one of those.
Would a tent mallet do the job instead?

[SlackAlice]

Hmmm, just a quick guess. Any chance of saving the document as a .doc in Word? You could then change the font colour in Word to either a very dark purple or dark brown and print from there.

Nowadays, modern printers with a dedicated black cartridge will not mix black from the colour cartridges.

Have you tried cleaning the black cartridge contacts with meths and the same with the printer contacts.

[tonyav]

Probably mrs overforce, needs more swing behind it though.


Anyhoo, good morning to you to. x

[mrs_overall]

Alice, I (or rather my minion Mr O) has followed all the cleaning instructions but to no avail.
I don't know how to convert and Adobe Acrobat doc into a word doc.

[WyeDyed]

By Adobe Acrobat document, I gather that it ends in ".pdf"?
You can import it into an image editor like Gimp and alter it from there. It's a bit long winded.
Best off popping it on a stick and finding a friend with a working printer.

[Robinia]

I've done what Alice suggests and that worked. My black cartridge's empty and I recently had to scan and send a serious item...it came out in a fashionable green and yellow but I sent it anyway. It'll brighten their day.

[mrs_overall]

Wyedyed, yes it does end in pdf.
The next part of your answer may as well have been in Swahili - I am a complete technophobe.
I am hunting for a memory stick as we speak. Thanks for that

[mrs_overall]

Right, it is on a memory stick ready for me to take to my friend's house.
Thank you all for your suggestions xx

[jno]

on my computer if you have a pdf up you can click on file > save as and it gives you the option to save it as a Word doc. I haven't tried it so don't know how it works.

[SlackAlice]

I would just add, that if you want to try something like this, then do it with a 'Copy' of the original file. So if it goes fubar you've still got the original.