Many old scanners, printers, and "Publisher's Suites" from 2001-2003 included Acrobat Distiller 4.x or 5.x as a bundled OEM piece of software. Check your old CD wallets or contact local print shops that are closing down. These discs are frequently given away for free.
: It takes code-heavy PostScript files and translates them into compact, viewable PDFs. Adobe Acrobat Distiller 4.x 5.x For Pagemaker 7.0 Free
If setting up a VM is too complex, you can emulate the behavior of old Distiller for free using modern open-source tools: Many old scanners, printers, and "Publisher's Suites" from
Automatically launching to "distill" that file into a PDF. Many old scanners