I have, for all intents and purposes, an identical setup. I cannot run
Acrobat Distiller Assistant. I can launch the application, but as soon
as a PS file appears in a watched folder, I get the error message,
"Error: Could not launch Distiller. Distiller Assistant will
terminate."

I have no problem running Distiller by itself, I might add.
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Gary E. Decker, Information Services Analyst
Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation
1550 Oxen Lane N.E., P.O. Box 411
Burlington, KS 66839-0411 USA
E-mail: gadecke@wcnoc.com
Phone: (316) 364-8831, ext. 8434
Fax: (316) 364-4154

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>From: Sarunas Burdulis[SMTP:sarunas@julius.ktl.mii.lt]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 1997 7:02 AM
>To: pdf-l@emrg.com
>Cc: acrobat@blueworld.com
>Subject: [pdf-l] - DISTILLER 3.0 ANY GOOD ON WinNT 4 ?!
>
>Hello!
>
>I've been struggling with Distiller3/NT4 for a while. My previous message to
>both lists passed unnoticed (even by Adobe people) so this is a cry for
>help...
>
>Adobe papers say "Win NT 3.51, 4.0 or later" and "24MB RAM for Acrobat
>Distiller". We have Pentium, 32MB RAM (+48MB swap), Win NT 4.0 build 1381.
>
>I.
>Distiller eats up memory like a starved piranha. Put a few files into the
>watched directory (say, approx. 10MB or 100 pages PostScript each) and you
>are going to shutdown the system pretty soon (with not even 2/3 of the job
>done). Closing the Distiller cleans up _some_ memory only.
>
>II.
>Say, there are 3 watched folders being checked every 15s. DistAssit starts
>with approx. 700kB in RAM and every 15s it wastes another 12kB (4kB per
>folder) => 48kB every min. or nearly 3MB every hour. Enjoy the "Out of
>virtual memory" message just before the lunch!
>
>Is Distiller 3.0 supposed to work with the current version of NT really?!
>
>Sarunas Burdulis
>R&D, VTEX Typesetting & Electronic Publishing Services
>Sarunas@KTL.MII.LT; http://www.vtex.mii.lt
>(370) 272 9515, 982 4498
>
>