What is the difference between using PDFWriter and Distiller?
A. Acrobat Distiller is Adobe’s full-feature PostScript-to-PDF converter. Distiller allows you to control options for the PDF you generate, but requires that you start with a PS file. PDFWriter is a printer driver which allows you to use the print command within an application (for example, a word processor, spreadsheet, or PowerPoint) to create a PDF file directly from your original; it is available only for Macintosh and Windows. While convenient for direct conversion of simple documents, PDFWriter lacks some features of Distiller and doesn’t work well for some types of documents. In general, if you don’t get satisfactory results with PDFWriter, try Distiller instead. In particular, PDFWriter may not always successfully process documents that contain Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) artwork or images, or documents that use features available only with PostScript printers.
