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USING ACROBAT 9 STANDARD
Creating PDFs
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(Optional) Choose Settings > Security and select an encryption level.
Open the PostScript file and start the conversion process, using either method:
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• 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)
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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
Required hard disk space is often double the size of the PostScript file being processed.
Ask For PDF File Destination
command.
Ask To Replace Existing PDF File
View PDF When Using Distiller
Delete Log Files For Successful Jobs
interpreting the PostScript file or if a PostScript error occurs. (Log files for failed jobs are always created.)
Lets you specify the name and location for files when using drag-and-drop or the Print
Warns you if you are about to overwrite an existing PDF.
Automatically opens the converted PDF.
Creates a log file (named messages.log) only if there are messages from
Last updated 9/30/2011
Warns you if available hard disk space is less than 1 MB.
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