In 2013, Distiller Server was discontinued in favor of the PDF Generator component of Adobe LiveCycle. Ī related Adobe product, Acrobat Distiller Server, was released in 2000 and provided the ability to perform high-volume conversion of PostScript to PDF formats through a centralized client-server architecture.
Originally a separate application, Distiller eventually became incorporated into a printer driver for creating PDF files that preserved the printed appearance of documents from other applications. Acrobat 4, in 1999, added preset configuration files to Distiller, and Acrobat 5, in 2001, added improved color management. It was first shipped as a component of Acrobat in 1993. htmlĪdobe Acrobat Distiller is a software application for converting documents from PostScript format to Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format), the native format of the Adobe Acrobat family of products. com /acrobat /using /creating-pdfs-acrobat-distiller.
