Regardless of whether you are using a Mac or some version of Windows, and no matter whether your printer is a workhorse ink jet or a high-end laser, your page formatting is preserved and the output is equivalent. Fonts are preserved as well, whether they are TrueType or PostScript Type 1 compressed fonts. One common misconception is that the Distiller has produced a bitmap of the document page. If this were true, fonts would appear quite jaggy as they were magnified to higher percentages. Instead, the format is vector-based, and fonts retain their crisp appearance even at top magnification.
Drawings offer the same feature.
In fact it is common now to transport schematics for hardware products using PDF output. This feature can be turned off, however. Production The second part of the Acrobat suite is Exchange. This is the application that lets you make changes and other refinements to the PDF file produced by the Distiller. Exchange is where Web publishing starts to become fun.