Acrobat Distiller

There are other ways to convert a single piece of SAS output to PDF. You can use a free script found on the Internet, such as ascii2pdf, or purchase a PDF file converter from a third-party software vendor. If you have Acrobat Distiller with Acrobat Version 5, you can use the PDF distiller macros in Microsoft Office to print a single file from Microsoft Word to PDF. 

If you need to convert multiple SAS output files into a single PDF file, I advise that you use Acrobat Distiller for this purpose. Here are the steps to follow if you have Acrobat Version 5 ... 

Use the Watched Folders facility, or better yet, write an Acrobat Distiller script to integrate all of your PostScript files into a single PDF. Acrobat Distiller provides a sample script for integrating PostScript files. 

Many publishers now accept properly created Portable Document Files, or PDFs. A PDF document is created when an application file produced by any of a number of software programs is distilled , using software such as Adobe s Acrobat Distiller. The PDF document can be viewed on any platform using viewing software such as Adobe s Acrobat Reader, regardless of whether the viewer has the original application software. 

Publishing with ACS For ACS journals,figure art that will be submitted in PDF format should be distilled using Adobe Acrobat Distiller s "Press Quality" setting. 

Encoding soirwaro Acrobat Distiller Command 3,01 for Solaris 2,3 and later fSPARC)... 

---