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Adobe has some expensive software tools for creating PDF files, but open source fans need not despair, there's an easy was to create PDF files using the tools that ship with most version of Linux. Linux.com recently posted a [great little tutorial][1] to walk you through the process of setting up a virtual printer to handle your PDF needs.
All you need is a Linux machine with the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) installed. Unfortunately most CUPS installs don't seem to ship with CUPS-PDF so you'll need to grab that with app-get.
Once you have that installed you can add a fake printer that will turn your print jobs into PDF files.
Mac OS X users will be familiar with that idea since all the Mac "Save" dialogues have a "Save As PDF" option which is very similar to what you'll end up with following Linux.com's tutorial.
Of course in this day and age more and more Linux apps ship with the ability to save files as PDFs without the virtual printer set-up, but for those that want a universal solution or for those with Windows machines on the same network, CUPS is the way to go.
[1]: http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/05/03/1421232 "Turn your Linux box into a PDF-making machine"
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