While ps2pdf an excellent tool for working with Postscript files, it's a command-line application. To use it, you need to type long strings at the command line. You can get around this by using GSView.
GSView is an excellent graphical user interface for viewing, manipulating, and printing both Postscript and PDF files. You can also use it to create PDF files. In a lot of ways, GSView is a graphical interface to ps2pdf.
Converting a Postscript file to PDF with GSView is simple. First, open the Postscript file that you want to convert in GSView. Next, select Convert from the File menu. On the Convert dialog box, select Pdfwrite from the Devices list. Then, click OK.
And what about those ps2pdf options that I mentioned earlier? Just click the Properties button on the Convert dialog box. The Properties dialog box lists all of the available options. Play around with them to discover those that suit your needs.
PStill
PStill is a powerful command-line tool that does an excellent job converting a Postscript file to PDF. PStill is a program along the same lines as Adobe Acrobat. While PStill doesn't do everything that Acrobat does, it gets the job done quite nicely, doesn't eat up that much in the way of system resources, and is a lot cheaper than Acrobat. If you're going to use PStill for personal or educational projects, the program is free. If you want to use PStill for commercial purposes, you have to pay a registration fee of $43 (U.S.).
Like ps2pdf, PStill has a number of command-line options, which are detailed in the program's documentation. However, you will find that you need to use only a few of these options.
To use PStill, type a command like the following:
pstill -o newFile.pdf myFile.ps
If you're wondering about what the -o does, it tells PStill that the filename that comes after it is the name of the PDF that you want to create.
While PStill is a powerful program, some non-techies might shy away from it because it's a command-line program. Also, configuring PStill can be a bit tricky.