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Janice,

When you print to the Adobe PDF printer, the end result is the PDF file. You do not have to distill anything. A temporary PS file is created, Distiller is opened to distill the PS file, then closed when finished deleting the PS file in the process. This is the method I use to create PDFs.

If you actually want to use Distiller directly, then when you print to the Adobe PDF printer, you need to select Save to File. Then the printer creates the PS file but does NOT distill it; you can then distill it using Distiller. It all depends upon whether you want to set your Distiller options in the Adobe PDF printer dialog or in Distiller. I have yet to find a reason to use Distiller directly. I just print to Adobe PDF printer without saving the file to disk; the end result is the PDF without having to use Distiller directly.

You asked about watched folders. Distiller has the feature of being able to look in watched folders for PS files. To do this, you create an empty folder, say on your desktop. Then open Distiller and set your job options. In Distiller, there is a command to select one or more watched folders. Then you leave Distiller running.

Go back to the application from which you need to create a PDF, then print to the Adobe PDF printer and SAVE to file, but save the file in the IN folder inside the watched folder. When the app has completed creating the PS file, Distiller opens it automatically and distills it, placing the PDF file in the OUT folder inside the watched folder. While Distiller is creating the PDF, you can do more work in your application. I generally do not use this feature because I have found that the vast majority of time spent in creating a PDF is consumed by the application making the PS file, whether temporary or not. The actual distillation process is usually very fast.

Van