Although GNU/Linux has long supported postscript format, full support for the related PDF file format has been longer in arriving. Today, however, PDF support is finally starting to equal what is available on other operating systems. Whether you are printing, editing, or viewing PDF files, you now have the choice of a variety of applications on both the command line and the desktops. What follows is not an exhaustive list of choices, but a survey of the main tools available. Taken together, they should be enough to fill most of your PDF needs.
Printing to PDF
GNU/Linux offers several options for producing .PDF files. At the command line, you can use ps2pdf, a script that comes bundled with Ghostscript. As its name suggests, ps2pdf converts postscript files to .PDF format. You can convert a file to postscript within any application by setting up a postscript printer to print to file (you don’t actually need the physical printer). From there, all you need is to enter the command ps2pdf . If you don’t want to change the path or name of the output file, you can omit it altogether to produce a file that has the same name as the postscript input file, but with a .pdf extension.
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