Adobe 22020737 Acrobat X Pro Manual - Page 83

USING ACROBAT X PRO 77 Creating PDFs Distiller preferences The Distiller preferences control global Distiller settings. You set Distiller preferences by choosing File > Preferences (Windows) or Distiller > Preferences (Mac OS). Notify When Watched Folders Are Unavailable Returns a message if a watched folder becomes unavailable or can't be found. (Windows) Notify When Windows TEMP Folder Is Nearly Full Warns you if available hard disk space is less than 1 MB. Required hard disk space is often double the size of the PostScript file being processed. Ask For PDF File Destination Lets you specify the name and location for files when using drag-and-drop or the Print command. Ask To Replace Existing PDF File Warns you if you are about to overwrite an existing PDF. View PDF When Using Distiller Automatically opens the converted PDF. Delete Log Files For Successful Jobs Creates a log file (named messages.log) only if there are messages from interpreting the PostScript file or if a PostScript error occurs. (Log files for failed jobs are always created.) Guidelines for creating PostScript files If you want to fine-tune the creation of the PDF with Distiller parameters or pdfmark operators, first create a PostScript file and then convert that file to PDF. For more information about the Adobe Acrobat X SDK, see the Acrobat Developer Center at www.adobe.com/go/learn_acr_devcenter_en (English only). In authoring applications such as Adobe InDesign, use the Print command with the Adobe PDF printer to convert a file to PostScript. The Print dialog boxes can vary from application to application. For instructions on creating a PostScript file from your specific application, see the application documentation. Keep in mind the following guidelines when creating PostScript files: • Use PostScript Language Level 3 whenever possible to take advantage of the most advanced features of PostScript. • Use the Adobe PDF printer as your PostScript printer. • (Windows) Send the fonts used in the document. • Give a PostScript file the same name as the original document, but with the extension .ps. (Some applications use a .prn extension instead.) • Use color and custom page sizes that are available with the Acrobat Distiller PPD file. Other PPD files may cause inappropriate colors, fonts, or page sizes in the PDF. • Send PostScript files as 8-bit binary data when using FTP to transfer the files between computers, especially if the platforms are different. This action prevents converting line feeds to carriage returns or vice versa. About watched folders You can configure Distiller to look for PostScript files in certain folders called watched folders. Distiller can monitor up to 100 watched folders. When Distiller finds a PostScript file located in the In folder of a watched folder, it converts the file to PDF and then moves the PDF (and usually the PostScript file and any associated log file) to the Out folder. A watched folder can have its own Adobe PDF settings and security settings that apply to all files processed from that folder. Security settings for a watched folder take priority over the security settings for Distiller. For example, Distiller does not convert a PostScript file in a watched folder if the file is marked with read-only permission. Last updated 10/11/2011