I do not know what it does to do so, though.)Īs far as I can tell, Preview embeds the entire character set of all typefaces used in the source document. (BTW, 'optimize' is an option in Acrobat to create smaller files. So even though Frame can create native PDFs, we get better results by printing to PS and then using Distiller to create the PDF, or even by using Frame to generate the PDF and then 'optimizing' it in Distiller or Exchange. We've noticed, though, as Nick M pointed out, that Distiller gives much smaller PDFs than (say) Framemaker.
I dunno what they're taking on the 4-color-glossy side of the house. I work in publishing (although I'm on the written content side, not the art side), and our vendor now prefer PDFs to PS however, we are not doing anything fancy, just black and white. I agree it's a reduced market, but isn't a large part of that reduced market Apple's core base of graphics folks? Maybe the PDF generation from AI and Photoshop is better than it used to be, or maybe PDF hasn't made the inroads at service bureaus I thought it had. Many people who would have purchased Distiller will be content with the functionality built into OS X, leaving Adobe with only the small market of people who require the advanced features of Distiller.
The market for an OS X version of Distiller is greatly reduced by OS X's ability to create (albeit crude) PDFs.
