STEP 2: Set up your file using the Adobe Distiller printer description or a postscript printer description and a Custom Page Size at 100% of your final print size. It is very important that your file is being printed at 100%. If you are including crop and registration marks in your PDF file, make sure you leave extra space for these marks.

STEP 3: If your file contains bleeds, you MUST turn on the option for crop and registration marks and make sure the bleeds are set to at least 1/8 inch beyond the trim (final page size). Set up a custom paper size in the print dialogue box to add one inch in both directions.

STEP 4: If you are printing a black & white file, make sure your color settings are set to greyscale or B/W. If you are printing a CMYK, make sure the setting is set to Composite Color. If you are printing spot colors, you must pre-separate the file.

STEP 5: Print to disk. The PDFWriter plug-in that was automatically installed when you installed Adobe Acrobat™ will generate a PostScript version of you file with the .PS file name extension.

STEP 6: Launch Adobe Acrobat™ and open the .PS file (or double-click the .PS file). Under the File menu select "Save As" and save the file with your final file name and the .PDF extension.

STEP 2: Either open the .PS file that you created, or drag it on top of the Distiller window. Make sure that your computer has finished printing the .PS file to disk.

STEP 3: When the file has been converted and you have a PDF file, without log file/errors, open it up in Adobe Acrobat™ to make sure that everything looks the way you expect it to. If you printed spot colors, make sure that all of your objects have been printed in the file. If you have a missing images or missing text it might be the result of the color space being set incorrectly. Refer to STEP 4 in Option A above.