Adobe Acrobat Distiller DC appears as a separate product in Windows 10. To uninstall? or Not to uninstall? That is the question...

[ls_rbls]

Hello,

In older threads I've read that this is an old technology Adobe Acrobat Distiller DC but that it is still integrated with the current DC version of Acrobat.

On the other hand, I've noticed that I have it installed in my Windows 10 computer as a separate component, giving me the option to uninstall it if I wanted to.

My question is,  could Adobe Acrobat still able to automatically convert from PDF to postscript and vice versa after the Distiller is uninstalled?

Recently I've also been reading about the LifeCycle Designer which seems to be a better technology as an replacement of Distiller DC and that is only supported in desktop computers (Windows),  that it may never be available on Mac (much less in open source Linux and unix distributions).

Is this a move from Adobe to deter the frequently observed  abuse of digitally signed documents converted to postscript by PDF users with the intention to edit and alter digitally signed fields that are supposed to remain locked after the signature was applied?

The LifeCycle Designer is also obtained through a paid subscription, which seems to be posing some discontent amongst some users.

So what happens next if I choose to uninstall the Distiller from windows?

[ls_rbls]

Excuse my typos ,

The opening line of the first paragraph in my initial reply above  "In older threads I've read that this is an old technology Adobe Acrobat Distiller DC" should read:

It should read " In older threads I've read that Distiller DC is part of old technology but that it is still present inall versions up to  Adobe Acrobat DC"

[Bernd Alheit]

Livecycle Designer is old Technologie.

Acrobat Distiller is part of the printer "Adobe PDF".

[try67]

- Distiller is still being used in some workflows to convert EPS files to PDF, but that's pretty much all it does. If you don't need this functionality then you can uninstall it, I guess, but I don't think you should. It's a very small application and having it on your computer will not cause any issues.

- LCD has nothing to do with Distiller. It's a completely different kind of application, and it's on its way out.