building pdfs

Is there any standard set of packages on any supported platform that 
will allow for building the doc PDFs? So far I have not found one on 
either Fedora 20 or Ubuntu 14.04, but maybe I'm missing something. I am 
looking at adding a buildfarm facility to build the docs, but I'm not 
prepared to make buildfarm owners turn handsprings in order to do so. 
IMNSHO, if we can't build the docs in all their formsts with standard 
distro packages then there's a problem right there we should address.

cheers

andrew