Configure the Adobe PDF printer (Mac OS)

In Mac OS, you must configure the Adobe PDF printer in three places: Distiller, your authoring application’s Page Setup menu, and your authoring application’s Print dialog box.

  1. In Distiller, specify the Adobe PDF settings, font locations, and security.
  2. In an authoring application such as Adobe InDesign, choose File > Page Setup.
  3. Select Adobe PDF 8.0 from the Format For menu.
  4. Specify the paper size, orientation, and scale as necessary.
  5. In your authoring application, choose File > Print, and select Adobe PDF 8.0 from the Printer menu.
  6. In the pop-up menu below the Presets menu, choose PDF Options, and set any of the following options:

    • Select a set of predefined conversion settings from the Adobe PDF Settings menu if you want to override default settings. Default settings are the settings currently defined in Distiller.

    • Specify whether to open the converted files in Acrobat in the After PDF Creation menu.

  7. Specify print settings as desired in the other menus available in the pop-up menu below the Presets menu.