Adobe 22002484 User Guide - Page 91

USING ACROBAT 9 STANDARD 86 Creating PDFs 2 (Optional) Choose Settings > Security and select an encryption level. 3 Open the PostScript file and start the conversion process, using either method: • Choose File > Open, select a PostScript file, and click Open. • Drag one or more PostScript files from the desktop to the Acrobat Distiller window. Click Pause before doing step 3 if you want to review the queue before Distiller starts converting the files. Change the queue during processing Do any of the following: • To temporarily stop processing the current job, click Pause. • To resume processing the current job, click Resume. • To delete files from the queue, click Cancel Job. Cancel Jobs deletes all files from the queue that are not yet successfully completed. Or (Windows only), select and right-click individual files in the job queue and choose Cancel Job(s) to delete only those files. • (Windows only) To open the folder where the selected files are, right-click the job queue and choose Explore. • (Windows only) To open the selected PDF in Acrobat, a browser, or Reader, right-click the job queue and choose View. Or, double-click the PDF to open it in Acrobat. Save a history of the job queue (Windows) ❖ Right-click the job queue, and choose Save List. Distiller saves and opens the history as a PDF. Clear the queue Remove all paused and successfully converted files from the list: • (Windows) Right-click the job queue, and choose Clear History. • (Mac OS) Click the Clear List button above the queue. Distiller preferences The Distiller preferences control global Distiller settings. You set Distiller preferences by choosing File > Preferences (Windows) or Distiller > Preferences (Mac OS). (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.) Last updated 9/30/2011