We are upgrading our Macs from Mac OS 9.2 to Mac OS X. I have been producing high-resolution PDFs to print our magazine and books using Distiller Acrobat 4.0, but with the change, I will have to use Acrobat 6. How will this affect our PDFs and Job Options. Our printer has Creo. ?Monica

Look at your distiller setting in Acrobat 4.0 - maybe take some screen shots of each tab, and then go to Acrobat 6.0 and set your settings the same way. Also if you are running Prinergy, just go to Workshop and do a search on "Distiller" and you should get a pop-up showing you exactly what the preferred settings are for Acrobat Distiller 6.0. ?Clifford Scott

I have had problems with this personally. I send ads out to about 150 different newspapers. Most have no problems with our files, but we are still having problems with some papers. For those papers, we are creating the Postscript file and distilling them using a computer running OS 9. You should be able to use your old job settings though. I would suggest sending out a test file to all your vendors before switching completely over. --Tracy Wright

Be sure to check with your printer about incompatibilities between Acrobat 6 and their Creo. You will need to make sure that although you will be working in Acrobat 6, that when you distill your .ps files that you distill the files using 1.4 (not 1.5). Some CREO RIPs (like ours) are not Acrobat 6 (1.5) compatible. ?Dino Hoke

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