Acrobat Distiller Settings

[Em Tee]

When I print using Acrobat Distiller, it takes forever (a recent development-I don't know why)!! I've tried changing my conversion settings, but there are so many choices and I don't know what they all mean. Does anyone know what good conversion settings are for General, Compression, Fonts, etc? I think I've got it totally screwed up now that I've changed it so many times.

Thanks.

 

[DB]

What version are you using Mary??

 

[Em Tee]

5.0

 

[Otis Key]

Mary - try going to adobe's web site to see if there are downloads for updates and to see if there is a trouble shoot section that can help you.

 

[Ben Vukicevich SRA]

Mary

Go to control panel, to Printers and select Adobe Distiller. In the PDF Settings/Job Settings poke around and see what it reset itself to. I bet you it jumped to "Print." Set it to Screen and your files will be much smaller and print faster.

Ben

 

[xm39hnu]

What Ben said.

That "Print" setting is for professional printers, and sports a gazillion dots per inch resolution, as well as a bunch of color bit depth. Your local inkjet printer driver then has to condense all that stuff down to something sane before it prints it.

 

[CANative]

Mary, for smallest file size:

Open distiller and go to the settings tab:

General Tab choose Optimize PDF, set at 75 -100 dpi
Compression tab = uncheck resampling in all instances, check automatic compressions and minimum quality.
Color tab = check leave color unchanged and preserve transfer function

This should give a pretty small file. Mine compress to about 800k-1.2k with 20 pages +- including about 15 jpeg pictures and a scan or two.

Save the changes. When you set printer preferences for this saved setting, like the above posts advised, used screen instead of print.

Other suggestions (especially if it's a really long time and a recent development)

Restart your computer.
Go to your control panel for pritners and open disitller to see if it's trying to print something.
If you have a pdf file open and try to print another new file, it can put the process in spin cycle.
If all else fails, reinstall adobe.