Chapter Three: Creating Pdf Files In Distiller And Acrobat - Adobe ACROBAT 9 HOW-TOS Manual

C h a p t e r t h r e e
Creating PDF Files
in Distiller and Acrobat
Only a limited number of programs have a PDFMaker installed with
Acrobat 9, and not all programs have internal PDF-generating options for
export. In many applications—illustration programs, for example—you
can generate other file formats that can then be processed using Acrobat
Distiller 9. Distiller is a separate program installed with the Acrobat 9
installation process and is used to convert EPS (Encapsulated PostScript),
PS (PostScript), and a specialized Windows format called PRN to the PDF
format. You can use either PS or PRN files in Distiller. The PS file format
uses the PostScript language. Some programs produce PRN files instead
of PS files; other programs generate PRN files if you choose Print to File
as a printing option. Both file formats are based on the printer drivers
installed on your computer.
Most programs allow printing, and if you can print a file, you can create
a PDF file using the Adobe PDF printer (read how in #9, "Printing with the
Adobe PDF Printer"). In addition to the files you may have handy on your
hard drive, Acrobat converts content from other sources, including scan-
ners, Web pages, your system clipboard—or starts from a blank page.
Many common file types can be converted to PDF from within Acrobat.
In Acrobat 9 you can combine files of different types, convert them all to
PDF, and either merge them into a single PDF file or produce a PDF Port-
folio, which collects the contents and combines them as subsets of a new
interface document (read about PDF Portfolios in Chapter 4, "Producing
a PDF Portfolio").
From the Library of Daniel Dadian