Distiller is the most complete way to create a PDF file.
It retains virtually all of the features of the original Postscript document, offers a range of options for compressing it, allows control over font embedding, and is simple to use. Below are the recommended procedures for distilling files to work as highly compressed files ideal for emailing and publishing to the web. These are the settings used for virtually all of the PDF files found on this site, for example. The first step in Distilling is to save documents into the Postscript page description language. Usually this is accomplished by using the Print command and specifying Postscript instead of a printer.