In
Distiller's main menu you can choose the job-options setting to use from
the drop-down menu. Three default settings are provided. To view what these
are in detail, and to create your own personalized settings, choose one and
then open Job Options from the Settings
menu:
Among other things, you can select compatibility of your PDF files with Acrobat 3.0 or Acrobat 4.0 (for the time being, choose 3.0, although Distiller's default setting is 4.0).
Images and text can be compressed with various options providing a fine control over the size vs. quality tradeoff during creation of PDF documents. You should always compress Text and LineArt. Automatic choice of the best compression method is normally best. The resampling methods used are quite different in quality and speed: bicubic downsampling is slower, but delivers the best quality. Subsampling is not recommended.
Fonts can be embedded. Document fidelity is better but file size increases. The Base14 fonts should never be embedded (they come with Acrobat Reader anyway, and are standard on all PostScript printers). You may want to set to always embed specific uncommon fonts that you use frequently.
Color Management options are also available. As Windows 98 finally provides color management capabilities similar to the Macintosh's, this is an option becoming more and more important.
The Acrobat Assistant can be configured to watch several folders for PostScript documents placed there and autoconvert them to PDF. It is configured from within Distiller, via the Watched Folders dialogue in the Settings menu.
The Preferences set in the File menu specify whether you wish to view the PDF files generated by Distiller, and whether you wish to be prompted for a file name and location.
