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Acrobat Distiller Options
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Acrobat Distiller Options
Acrobat Distiller converts PostScript files to Adobe PDF files. The Distiller options let you
select fonts to embed in the new PDF file, define how to compress images in the file,
provide color management information for images in the file, define security settings, set
up watched folders for batch processing of files, and customize the conversion in many
other ways.
Note:
Even if you use PDFMaker or the Acrobat Distiller printer in your authoring appli-
cation to create Adobe PDF files, you are still using the Distiller utility.
Setting Distiller options
You can change the job options, manage watched folders, change where Distiller looks for
fonts, or apply security settings to Adobe PDF files that you create. You can set all these
options from within Distiller. You can also set job options and apply security settings to
files from within Acrobat PDFMaker 5.0 when you are converting Microsoft Office applica-
tions documents to Adobe PDF. And you can set job options from the Print Setup menu
for the default Acrobat Distiller printer.
To set file options from Microsoft Office applications (Windows):
1
In Word, PowerPoint, or Excel, choose Acrobat > Change Conversion Settings.
2
In the Acrobat PDFMaker 5.0 for Microsoft Office dialog box, click Edit Conversion
Settings.
3
Under File Options, choose PDF version compatibility.
To set the Distiller options from the Acrobat Distiller printer:
1
In your authoring application’s Print Setup or Page Setup dialog box, select Acrobat
Distiller as the printer, and click Properties.
2
Click the Adobe PDF Settings tab, and click Edit Conversion Settings. Set the job
options, as described in
“Setting job options” on page 46
. (The terms
conversions settings
and
job options
are used interchangeably.)
Note:
Print Setup dialog boxes vary, so you may need to consult the documentation that
came with your application for more information.
Setting job options
For your convenience Acrobat Distiller comes with several sets of predefined settings for
creating Adobe PDF files. These settings are designed to balance file size with quality,
depending on how the Adobe PDF file is to be used.
You should check your Acrobat Distiller job options periodically. Distiller always uses
the last set of job options defined; it does not automatically revert to the default settings.