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Boy, I think Distiller 3 is 7 or 8 years old. In computer years, that's ancient. With Distiller 3, in particular, it's prehistoric. Distiller 4 (.05) was a major rewrite of how the program functioned. Two critical changes were: 1) Fonts. For the first time Distiller was programmed to read and obey the font embedding restriction tags in TrueType fonts. This would cause PDFs to fail if a user tried to embed fonts that were flagged not to embed. This change caused massive confusion and anger amongst the masses, and pitted consumers against Adobe and font foundries. Macromedia's Fontographer was a party to the mess, too. Also, Adobe changed the base 14 fonts from Helvetica and Times, to Arial and Times New Roman, and others. The reason was that the company was giving away hundreds of thousands of free readers and had to pay expensive font licensing fees out of its pocket. 2) Job options. Distiller 3 is clunky if you want to make more than one flavor of PDF. Distiller 4 provided default and user specified options for different types of PDFs (i.e. CMYK or RGB; font embedding, subsetting, or not; different resolutions; etc.). In general, Acrobat 4 was much more friendly for those who wished to use PDFs for commercial printing purposes. That said, Distiller is now up to version 6. Many more features are included, and Adobe has made significant refinements to version 4.05. If you want to learn more, you might be able to find out more information on the Adobe web site. (http://www.adobe.com). Hope this helps. Rich -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Srinivasulu Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 1:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PDF-Basics] Distiller 3 and Distiller 4 Differences PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __________________________________________________________________ Can any one tell me the diffrences in features of Distiller3 and Distiller 4 ? seena To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
