

It is two steps but the transfer to Distiller for PDF conversion is automatic and hidden from sight. When you print to Distiller an intermediate postscript file is produced and that file is automatically passed to Distiller for conversion into a PDF. The Adobe PDF application Distiller can also function as a printer driver. Caution: It can be useful for text-only PDFs but it does not produce PDFs of the same quality, especially for embedded images, as does Distiller. It creates this PDF directly, without first going through a postscript stage. Instead of printing it creates a PDF file. PDFWriter acts like a printer driver that can be selected from application print menus. Various versions of Adobe Acrobat come with an application called PDFWriter.

Finding the settings that will cause font embedding is often a challenge. Caution: This method is handy and seems easy but the PDFs often fail to embed all fonts. Installing Acrobat also installs PDF creation buttons in some applications-notably Microsoft Word.
