![]() That having been said, it is Adobe's intention to continue to distributing and supporting Acrobat Distiller as part of the Acrobat product, but certainly not enhancing it in any way. And just the other day, a legacy Adobe application, FrameMaker, began to support direct PDF creation without going through the PostScript route. Quark was very late to the game, creating PDF via conversion of PostScript “under the covers” until relatively recent versions. ![]() Corel was actually also an early adopter of direct PDF generation. That is exactly what happened relatively early on with Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign. Our assumption was that over time, as PDF gained popularity and as PDF eclipsed PostScript in terms of richness of the imaging model (i.e., ICC color management, transparency, etc.), applications would generate PDF directly. The PostScript route was chosen since for early PDF, PostScript was relatively easily converted to PDF (as opposed to QuickDraw for old MacOS and GDI for Windows). The original reason for the Adobe Acrobat Distiller was to provide a convenient means by which PDF files could be produced by any application that was capable of printing using standard, system PostScript drivers.
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