Hot Folders

I am working with Acrobat professional 8 on a G5 in os 10. How do you create hot folders? I have checked the online help and the manuals for both acrobat and distiller and I just can't find it. I have even tried to google it. I know this should be easy but I just can't figure it out. Can someone tell me where to find this information?

If you're trying to create PDFs with Distiller you want WATCHED FOLDERS.

In Acrobat help, that's Creating PDFs > Creating PDFs with Acrobat Distiller > Set Watched Folders.

If that's not what you're trying to do, let us know what you're trying to do.

What we would like to do is create a folder we can send to our clients where they can drop their files and create pdfs from our specs.

Watched Folders will work for that, although its a violation of the End User's License Agreement. Unless, of course, your clients own copies of Acrobat Distiller.

They do, they have the CS package. Thanks for your help I will give that a try.

You could send them your job options, which they can apply to a watched folder they have setup.

Unfortunately they don't know a whole lot about Acrobat, they can barely make a pdf. They definitely don't know anything about watch folders.

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1 7th April 19:25 fran_bellamy External User Posts: 1	Hot Folders I am working with Acrobat professional 8 on a G5 in os 10. How do you create hot folders? I have checked the online help and the manuals for both acrobat and distiller and I just can't find it. I have even tried to google it. I know this should be easy but I just can't figure it out. Can someone tell me where to find this information?

2 7th April 22:15 steve_werner External User Posts: 1	Hot Folders If you're trying to create PDFs with Distiller you want WATCHED FOLDERS. In Acrobat help, that's Creating PDFs > Creating PDFs with Acrobat Distiller > Set Watched Folders. If that's not what you're trying to do, let us know what you're trying to do.

3 7th April 22:15 fran_bellamy External User Posts: 1	Hot Folders What we would like to do is create a folder we can send to our clients where they can drop their files and create pdfs from our specs.

4 7th April 22:16 steve_small External User Posts: 1	Hot Folders Watched Folders will work for that, although its a violation of the End User's License Agreement. Unless, of course, your clients own copies of Acrobat Distiller.

5 8th April 11:04 fran_bellamy External User Posts: 1	Hot Folders They do, they have the CS package. Thanks for your help I will give that a try.

6 8th April 14:13 de_siem External User Posts: 1	Hot Folders You could send them your job options, which they can apply to a watched folder they have setup.

7 8th April 19:14 fran_bellamy External User Posts: 1	Hot Folders Unfortunately they don't know a whole lot about Acrobat, they can barely make a pdf. They definitely don't know anything about watch folders.