Operation Manual

Creating PDFs

Last updated 4/7/2015

Create a custom Adobe PDF settings file

1 Do one of the following:

• In Acrobat Distiller, select one of the predefined sets of options from the Default Settings menu to use as a

starting point, and then choose Settings > Edit Adobe PDF Settings.

• In authoring applications or utilities, select Adobe PDF as the target printer—typically in the Page Setup or Print

dialog boxes—and click Properties.

• (Windows) In the Acrobat PDFMaker dialog box, clickAdvanced Settings in the Settings tab.

Note: In Windows, you can switch to a different preset from within the Adobe PDF Settings dialog box. To do

this, select Show All Settings at the bottom left and then select a preset from the list on the left.

2 Select panels one at a time, and make changes as needed.

3 Save your customized preset in one of the following ways:

• Click OK to save a duplicate of the custom preset file, which will automatically be renamed. For example, if you

edit the Press Quality preset, your first customized version appears as Press Quality (1).

• Click Save As, type a new descriptive name for the file, and click Save.

The custom file is saved in (Windows) /Documents and Settings/[user name]/Application Data/Adobe/Adobe

PDF/Settings, (Vista/7/8) User/[user name]/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/Adobe PDF/Settings, or (Mac OS)

Users/[user name]/Library/Application Support/Adobe PDF/Settings.

Delete custom Adobe PDF settings files

1 In Acrobat Distiller, choose Settings > Remove Adobe PDF Settings.

2 Select the custom file and click Remove.

3 Repeat step 2 as needed, and then click Cancel to close the Remove Adobe PDF Settings dialog box.

Adobe PDF settings

The Acrobat Distiller Adobe PDFMaker Settings > Advanced Settings contains panels of options that you can select to

customize your PDF output.