Acrobat 9 Distiller job options

It's a spurious problem. Distiller shouldn't DISPLAY that .joboption file because it can't use it. The fact that it displays it at all is a bug. It's in the location with the other .joboptions because it can be used in the other Adobe Creative Suite 3 or 4 applications. You could use this out of InDesign CS4, for example.

The PDF/X-4 specification includes the ability to PRESERVE TRANSPARENCY and other attibutes that are totally inappropriate for Distiller. Distiller only works with PostScript file which, by definition, flatten transparency. The PDF/X-4 .joboption file would be used to create a file for a PDF workflow like with an Adobe PDF Print Engine RIP. These newer RIPs consume native PDF files to preserve their quality. Flattening transparency only happens in the RIP at print time.

That particular job options file doesn't exist, and when I delete them all, I get the problems mentioned above.

Funny, I'm getting the same message. I just upgraded/installed Pro v9 and I get this message when I launch the newly installed distiller:

"Error in /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PDF/Settings/PDFX4 2008.joboptions:
/CheckCompliance out of range"

I can launch Distiller 7 w/ no problem. This only happens when I launch Distiller 9

Any ideas? What do I need to do to fix this?

Thanks, but unfortunately that means I lose my job options. Also, when I do this, I don't get the error, but I only get three job option choices and the one that is selected by default is blank.

I believe that there is a problem with the joboptions file. Delete it at
will.

Mike