Try Acrobat and you'll be hooked, too. Your students will thank you for it. Please note that this article is written for Acrobat 3.0. Adobe is releasing Acrobat 4.0 in mid-March of 1999. 1 I am being a little unfair to bean hills here.
Distiller is used to make files which are postscript, a different file format.
Click on Options for greater control. Usually you will not have to change this. If you do change the document size or other attributes, remember to change it back when you next print. Another example of Acrobat's compression ability can be found by comparing the Acrobat file size to the size of the document in its original form. It is a 3.9 MB download.