Creating a good pdf file from Latex source is harder than it should be; ps2pdf or convert will not necessarily do a good job on the text or the mathematical symbols, or either. See my section on this.
For file conversions, check out the following CS web page.
| ps2ps | simplifies postscript files |
| ps2pdf | converts ps to pdf format |
| pdf2ps | converts pdf to ps format |
| convert file.ext1 file.ext2 | converts from format ext1 to format ext2, e.g. ps to pdf, bmp to ps |
| ps2epsi | converts ps to encapsulated postscript (i.e. with a bounding box and a preview) |
| gs | does various conversions of postscript files |
| gs -dNOPAUSE -r[xres]x[yres]-sDEVICE=jpeg -sOutputFile=file.jpg file.ps | convert ps to jpeg |
| latex2html | converts LATEX to html |
| psfrag | substitutes for text in ps files |
| psnup -nup n file.ps filenx.ps | puts n pages to a page in a ps file |
| dvips -o file | converts file.dvi to file.ps without printing |
| enscript -Pprinter -2 -r | takes plain text and converts to ps, putting 2 on a page and printing |
| pdflatex | creates pdf from LATEX |