This is of course where Acrobat excels, and where Preview is more limited. This file was simply an alias to /usr/sbin/cupsfilter, which still performs the job. In earlier versions of OS X, a file called “convert” used to be in /System/Library/Printers/Libraries, which would convert any file type that macOS understands natively to PDF. Of course, the PDFs are all of a type: PDF version 1.3, fonts subset embedded, images as they come, and pretty much everything else undefined. This is macOS’s built-in “distiller” command. I thought I would mention here what I've found to see what other people might think/add. It strikes me that macOS does contain some very powerful tools for PDF manipulation, but hidden away where most people can't find them. Some PDF manipulation is possible in Automator, but it seems limited in what it can do (particularly in saving files to runtime locations) and how it does it. However, Preview is not (really) scriptable. One of Acrobat's main advantages is in batch processing. In my attempts to wean myself off Adobe's products, I've been looking at alternatives for Acrobat, and obviously, my first stop is macOS's built-in PDF manipulation, much of which is already contained in Preview.
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