Acrobat 9 Distiller job options

Report · Feb 03, 2009

When I open Distiller, I get the error:

Error in /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PDF/Settings/PDFX4 2007.joboptions:
/CheckCompliance out of range

What I'm not sure about is as the install is only a drag and drop from the Disc, where it's supposed to get the job options from?

If it uses ones from older versions, I don't want to delete them. However, it doesn't have any distill options when I open it, I'm assuming because it won't load the rest after it's had a problem with that one.

Report · Jun 01, 2011

.joboptions files are text files, so you can edit the data directly.

I opened up the joboptions file that was causing the error in a Text Editor. (Note, text editor, not word processor!)

Open PDFX4 2008.joboptions

Find:

/CheckCompliance [

/PDFX4:2008

replace with:

/CheckCompliance [

/PDFX3:2002

Obviously, if you need to use this joboption file in InDesign or whatever, then the compliance may be broken. However, from what I can gather, PDF X/4 is exactly the same as PDF X/3, except that it supports links to external data ("OPI-like").