On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Tom Lane wrote:
> FYI, the soon-to-appear 6.0 release of Ghostscript will have PDF-writing
> capability: feed it a plain PS file, get PDF. I haven't played with it,
> but I believe it will be a reasonable freeware substitute for Adobe's
> PDF-creation tools.
FYI, Ghostscript (on Linux) has had this at least since late 1998
(I have "ps2pdf" as part of ghostscript 5.10 on a RedHat 5.2).
I know this as I always submit my papers (written in LaTeX) to conferences
in PDF format (especially when they ask for Microsoft Word format :-)
I have also heard of "dvi2pdf" (or "dvipdf"), but have not used it myself.
cheers,
Hossein