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ADOBE ACROBAT 8 STANDARD
User Guide
Set Adobe PDF printer properties
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Open the Printers window from the Start menu, and right-click the Adobe PDF printer.
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Choose Properties.
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Click the tabs, and select options as needed.
Reassign the port that the Adobe PDF printer uses
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Quit Distiller if it is running, and allow all queued jobs to the Adobe PDF printer to complete.
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Open the Printers window from the Start menu.
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Right-click the Adobe PDF printer, and choose Properties.
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Click the Ports tab, and then click Add Port.
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Select Adobe PDF Port from the list of available port types, and click New Port.
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Select a local folder for PDF output files, and click OK. Then click Close to quit the Printer Ports dialog box.
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In the Adobe PDF Properties dialog box, click Apply, and then click OK.
For best results, select a folder on the same system where Distiller is installed. Although remote or network folders
are supported, they have limited user access and security issues.
Delete a folder and reassign the Adobe PDF printer to the default port
1
Quit Distiller if it is running, and allow a few minutes for all queued jobs to Adobe PDF to complete.
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Open the Printers window from the Start menu.
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Right-click the Adobe PDF printer, and choose Properties.
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Click the Ports tab.
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Select the default port, My Documents, and click Apply.
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Select the port to delete, click Delete Port, and then click Yes to confirm the deletion.
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Select the My Documents port again and click Close.
Configure the Adobe PDF printer (Mac OS)
In Mac OS, you must configure the Adobe PDF printer in three places: Distiller, your authoring application’s Page
Setup menu, and your authoring application’s Print dialog box.
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In Distiller, specify the Adobe PDF settings, font locations, and security.
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In an authoring application such as Adobe InDesign, choose File > Page Setup.
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Select Adobe PDF 8.0 from the Format For menu.
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Specify the paper size, orientation, and scale as necessary.
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In your authoring application, choose File > Print, and select Adobe PDF 8.0 from the Printer menu.
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In the pop-up menu below the Presets menu, choose PDF Options, and set any of the following options:
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Select a set of predefined conversion settings from the Adobe PDF Settings menu if you want to override default
settings. Default settings are the settings currently defined in Distiller.
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Specify whether to open the converted files in Acrobat in the After PDF Creation menu.
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Specify print settings as desired in the other menus available in the pop-up menu below the Presets menu.