
This automatic process is managed by Distiller Assistant, a utility installed with Distiller. The one step process: From the application in which you would otherwise create a PostScript file, send the PostScript information that describes the original document directly to Distiller and let Distiller convert it to PDF automatically.

2 Convert the PostScript file to PDF with Distiller. The two-step process: 1 Create a PostScript file and save it to your hard drive or a watched folder.

Creating a PDF file with Distiller is a two-step process that can be streamlined to one step if you have approximately 20MB of application RAM available above the amount of RAM needed to run the program used to create the document. PDF documents created by Acrobat Distiller maintain all the formatting, graphics, and photographic images in the original documents. The PDF documents it creates can be viewed and printed by anyone with the Acrobat Exchange or Reader program. Using Acrobat Distiller Acrobat Distiller creates PDF documents from PostScript information. Choosing Distiller job Choosing font locations, Font Locations. See Choosing Advanced Options settings for information. Distiller 3.0 provides the ability to control the printing-specific information maintained in a PDF file for use in outputting to high-end printing systems. See Using downsampling and subsampling to reduce file size for more information.Īdvanced Options. Subsampling is faster than downsampling but may result in a color shift. Distiller 3.0 offers two methods of resampling downsampling and subsampling. A font that is 30K can be compressed to as little as 7K with the new font format. Type 1C fonts reduce file size by compressing the fonts. Distiller uses the new compressed Type 1C font format to reduce file size when 3.0 compatibility is chosen. Distiller 3.0 allows you to set the character threshold that determines when to subset a font to reduce file size.Ĭompressing fonts. Distiller Assistant, the utility that makes it easy to create a PDF file with Distiller in one step, is now available on the Macintosh.įont subsetting.

The DSC comments For, Title, and Creator are converted to Author, Title, and Creator Document Info fields, respectively.ĭistiller Assistant. Distiller 3.0 will automatically include certain Document Structuring Comments (DSC) information found in a PostScript file as Document Info field data. Most landscape pages are oriented to a landscape position in Distiller for correct display in Acrobat Exchange or Reader.Īutomating Document Info field entry.New features This section describes the new features available in Acrobat Distiller 3.0, which make it easier for you to create smaller, more efficient PDF documents.Īutomatic orientation.
