PStill - 5.7.5

The libtiff.dylib error is fixed.

PStill is much more versatile than the built-in distiller in 10.3. Distilling options such as image resolution, image compression, font embedding, and security are all accessible in PStill. None of these are available with the OS X 10.3 built-in distiller. I use the built-in distiller for some simple jobs, but when I need clean, compact PDF files from large documents with images, I use PStill.

right way - creating PDF/X-3 direct from PostScript or PDF. I don't know any tool that can do this. With the new PDF services of OSX you can even create PDF/X-3 conforming PDFs directly from the print dialog of any application. (Except from Adobe Apps, they crash for some reason when I use any script from PDF services, hope that will be fixed soon either by Apple or Adobe). In the past I had to create my PDF and then check it for PDF/X3 and add the ICC-Profil. If something did go wrong I had to start over. PStill reduces this to one step. Another very useful feature for me is to convert the fonts in PS and PDF to Outline, so I can easly edit some ugly PC-PDFs with Illustrator etc. Also very nice the ability to tile Posters. PStill becomes better and better...

of this software? Can't you just do this with tools allready in OSX? Or with Illustrator or... Someone please enlighten this poor neophite.

well worth the $70 price tag. The GUI is convenient (and works in the same way that the Acrobat Distiller does), and PStill has capabilities that "Print to PDF" lacks. Most importantly, it can create high res pdf files from documents containing embedded EPS files. I imagine that Ghostscript via the command line can do this also, but I prefer the GUI. Its quick, its easy. 4 stars for the program itself, and 1 additional star for the incredible support offered by Andrew Stone. If the program can't do something you need it to do, send him an email, and I'm sure he'll try to address your problem.