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As a result, Acrobat Distiller forms an important component of certain automated prepress workflows, and it's likely that Adobe does not wish to break these by failing to include the utility with each new release of Acrobat.

Front Page Title Index. Adobe Distiller. Workflow automation Acrobat Distiller offers a hot-folders feature that automatically generates PDFs according to specific settings when PostScript files are dropped in marked folders. All text and images are licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution. Distiller can monitor up to watched folders. 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. Windows Settings and preferences are unique to each user. On an NTFS, only files created by respective users are read- and write-accessible. Settings files created by other users are read-only. To share a watched folder with other users, the creator of the folder must set the appropriate permissions for the In and Out folders.

Sharing enables other users to copy files to the In folder and get files from the Out folder. The creator must be logged into the system and have Distiller running. The other users must log in remotely to open the live watched folder and have their files processed. To define security options for a folder, select the folder and click Edit Security. Click OK to return to the Watched Folders dialog box.

A security icon is prepended to any folder name for which security is set. To return a folder to the original options selected in the Distiller window, select the folder, and click Clear Security.

Click OK to save it to the watched folder as folder. Use any settings that you have defined, named, and saved, and then click OK. Enter a number of seconds to specify how often to check the folders. You can enter up to Choose what to do with a PostScript file after it has been processed. The file can be moved to the Out folder along with the PDF file or deleted.

Any log file is also automatically copied to the Out folder. To delete PDFs after a certain period of time, enter a number of days, up to This option also deletes PostScript and log files, if you have chosen to delete them. When you remove a watched folder, Distiller does not delete the In and Out folders, their contents, or the folder. You can delete these manually when appropriate. Legal Notices Online Privacy Policy.

User Guide Cancel. Acrobat Distiller overview. Manage the conversion queue. Queue a PostScript file. Open the PostScript file and start the conversion process, using either method:. 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 Job 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. 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.