How Do I Create PDF Files from Mathematica Notebooks?

Acrobat or Ghostscript

There are basically two ways of creating a PDF file from a Mathematica notebook. One way is to buy a copy of Adobe Acrobat, which provides a printer driver that can output any document as a PDF file. It is more reliable, especially for multi-page notebooks, to save the file from Mathematica as PostScript, then to use Adobe Acrobat to read it and save it as PDF. The free way is to use Ghostscript. Using Mathematica and Ghostscript to generate PDF files from Mathematica notebooks is very straightforward but involves multiple steps. The process for Microsoft Windows and Aladdin GSview follows.

First, select any PostScript printer driver in the Print dialog, and check the Print to File option.

Save the file with the extension .ps.

Open the file in GSview, select Print and choose pdfwrite as driver, and set the appropriate options.

Click Ok, and save the file with the extension .pdf.