Interactive scripting and render preview within Acrobat Distiller
Hi, I would like to know if it is possible to use Adobe Acrobat Distiller as an interactive postscript interpreter.
What I desire is to see a text console I can activate within the Distiller application through, for example, "File" menu --> New Terminal Window. I should then be able to programmatically change variables that will become parameters in a script I will have composed myself.
I would then like to issue a render command that creates a PDF using the currently selected profile in the "Default Settings" drop down list. In addition, it would be useful to be able to open a render window so that I can see the output of what I am working on, and make my iterative changes, before choosing to commit a PDF file to disk.
Another way to approach this would be to make Distiller or Reader/Editor a connected application in the ExtendScript Toolkit though I am not certain if it would be fit for purpose; I would desire to control the system in the PostScript language rather than in JavaScript. The ExtendScript editor is also a deprecated application today, as Visual Studio Code now seems to be the preferred way to script Adobe products.
Given the ability of distiller to output a LOG file in addition to a PDF, I have confirmed by link below that there is enough of the original PostScript interpreter to still use Distiller as a development tool, and should Distiller also become a deprecated application, I do hope the Adobe Product Team will consider reintroducing it as a development tool, perhaps even accessable though the same modern software development IDE that is preferred for scripting other Adobe products.
Using Acrobat Distiller as a general purpose PostScript computer (tinaja.com)
Have others accomplished this feature I write of via any third party extension or directly within Distiller itself?
