Windows NT® 4.

0 • Solaris™ • Linux®

Adobe Acrobat Distiller Server

® ®
®

Centralized
Adobe PDF creation for
your entire network

Now your organization can easily share
documents across platforms and applica-
tions while preserving their original look
and feel—with fonts, graphics, and layout
intact. Adobe Acrobat 4.0 Distiller Server
software provides workgroups with a cen-
tralized solution for converting Adobe
PostScript ® files to universally accessible
Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).
A flexible, automated mechanism for
high-volume Adobe PDF creation, Acrobat
D i s t i l l e r S e r ve r g i ve s I T a n d c re a t i ve
professionals the power of increased pro-
ductivity and the assurance of consistent,
quality output. Now you can feel confident
that anyone, anywhere can easily access
your information—just as you intend.
CONSERVE VALUABLE IT RESOURCES
By enabling centralized management of
Adobe PDF creation, Acrobat Distiller Server
can reduce IT overhead. Each Distiller Server
license provides 100 users with access to an
automated conversion workflow. In the Win-
dows NT version, clients drop their Adobe
PostScript files into a watched folder on a
server and the program queues those files for
output in Adobe PDF. There’s virtually no
training required! The UNIX® version of-
fers a command line-driven means of dis-
tilling Adobe PDF files and is customizable
using scripts.
SAVE TIME FOR CREATIVE TASKS
When design and publishing departments
must prepare their files for final press output,
the visual fidelity and compact file size of
Adobe PDF makes it a preferred document
delivery format. With Acrobat Distiller
Server, publishing professionals can keep
their energy focused on the creative pro-
cess—not on the details of file conversion
processing. By offloading Adobe PDF cre-
ation from your workstation to a dedicated
server application, Distiller Server software
frees you to perform more important tasks.
well as predetermined settings to optimize
your Adobe PDF files for screen, print, or
press output. By working within specific dis-
tilling parameters, Acrobat Distiller Server
offers you a greater degree of control so you
get precisely the output you expect.
INTEGRATE WITH ACROBAT BUSINESS
TOOLS
Increase workgroup and enterprise produc-
tivity by using Acrobat Distiller Server with
its ideal complement, Adobe Acrobat Busi-
ness Tools software (licensed separately).
Acrobat Business Tools makes collaboration
more efficient by letting you electronically
mark up Adobe PDF documents with sticky
notes, highlights, underlines, strikethroughs,
and other versatile tools. And when it’s time
for approval, you can use your own digital
signature to approve documents. Together,
Acrobat Distiller Server and Acrobat Busi-
ness Tools provide a complete solution for
streamlining document workflows.
When your organization needs an efficient,
reliable way to convert Adobe PostScript
files to Adobe PDF, count on the power of
Acrobat Distiller Server software.

ENSURE CONSISTENT, HIGH-QUALITY

RESULTS
Centralized Adobe PDF creation helps to
ensure that your files are consistently cre-
ated with approved job options settings.
You can take advantage of customizable as bc
Adobe Acrobat Distiller Server Workflow
CREATE DOCUMENTS CONVERT TO ADOBE PDF SHARE AND REVIEW

Word processing/
Presentations

WORKFLOW TO COME.

Spreadsheets

Page layout /
graphic design
Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat
Distiller Server Business Tools

Create original documents on your Use Acrobat Distiller Server to Distribute Adobe PDF files via the Web, intranets,

workstation, and save them as Adobe perform automated, server-based e-mail, or CD-ROM. And with Acrobat Business

PostScript files. conversion of PostScript files into Tools (licensed separately), you can collaborate

Adobe PDF. using electronic review and mark-up tools, digital

signatures, and more!

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS CONTENTS

Windows NT • Acrobat Distiller Server software

• Intel® i486™ or Pentium® processor- • Registration card
based personal computer (Pentium • CustomerFirst® brochure
recommended) • EULA booklet
®
• Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 with Service
Pack 3 or later.
• 24 MB of RAM for Acrobat (32 MB CUSTOMIZE YOUR OUTPUT

recommended) With Distiller Server, you can op-

• 80 MB of available hard-disk space timize your Adobe PDF files for
(70 MB of additional hard-disk space for screen, print, or press output.
Asian fonts recommended)
• CD-ROM drive

Solaris and Linux

• Processor speeds:
–Solaris: a Sun™ 167-MHz UltraSPARC
–Linux: a 200-MHz Pentium III
• Sun Solaris 2.6 or later, or Red Hat Linux
6.0 or later (kernel 2.2.5 and libc-2.1.1) OFFLOAD YOUR DISTILLING TASKS
• 128 MB of RAM By converting Adobe PostScript files to Adobe
• 100 MB of available hard-disk space in PDF via a dedicated server application, you
the installation directory and 100 MB in save time for more important work.
the temporary directory (/tmp)
• CD-ROM drive

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Sun are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are
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