No need for Adobe Acrobat here.
After the considerable strife of
this thread I decided to look more closely into how to make GOOD QUALITY pdfs - not he crappy ones barfed out by ps2pdf which seems to be rubbish.
1. Learn
LaTeX. It's not popular, but if you want to make pdfs, you gotta learn it.
2. Compile your tex document into a device independent file (*.dvi)
3. Run this new and quite clever program
dvipdfm.
And there's your pdf file. With properly rendered fonts and graphics support.