How can I make PDF files?

The best commercial PDF generator is Adobe Acrobat (on PC and MAC), it is as easy to use as a printer.
If you use MS Word 98, you can save your documents as PDF files.
If you use LaTeX on UNIX/Linux, you can generate PDF files by pdflatex (pdflatex is installed on many Linux machine.)
Since pdflatex is not installed on scires, you can generate PDF file from from PS file by following these steps: (These instructions are for users on scires, ask your system manager if you want to do it on other systems.)
1. Use pslatex to typeset your latex file. (This is very important, otherwise you will get very bad fonts.) Suppose your file is test.tex, run
```
pslatex test.tex
or
pdflatex test.tex
```
  will generate test.dvi file.
2. Run dvips command to generate PS file:
```
dvips -o test.ps test.dvi
```
3. Run ps2pdf command to generate PDF file:
```
ps2pdf test.ps [test.pdf]
or directly from dvi to pdf:
dvipdf test.dvi [test.pdf]
```
  The final result is test.pdf.

One of these approaches should give type 1 fonts perhaps except in bibliography stuff.

Click here if you want to make a pdf file out of an A4 size postscript file.