Subsequently, you could use the Adobe Distiller application, still available with all Acrobat Pro versions, to turn the PostScript file into a PDF file. Using the old Adobe PDF printer when creating a PostScript file allowed you to create a page of any size.
These workflows can require creating PostScript files for various paper sizes.
However, people use many different workflows for print, and some of them require using older RIPs or using InDesign’s Print Booklet feature. In summary, I wrote, “What you need to know is that in Snow Leopard, the Acrobat team replaced the functionality of the Adobe PDF printer with an Automator function in the Print dialog called Save as Adobe PDF.” For most of us Mac users who blithely continue to choose File > Export > Adobe PDF, these changes won’t affect us. One of the most popular postings I’ve done in the last couple years was one I wrote a little over a year about changes in the creation of Adobe PDF files under Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
