[CALUG] outputting PDF or PS from FOSS?

[Ed Browne]

Hi,
    I assumed this would be easy, but apparently
it's not - I need to turn in my final paper in
either PDF of Postscript format, but now I see
that OpenOffice does not produce either of those
two formats. The tools the university recommends
are either Windows-only or cost a fair bit.  The
only option I see as possible from my Ubuntu
distro is Tex (which can output both ps and pdf)
but I've always found Tex a bear to use (and I
ought to be spending my time finishing my
paper and not learning tex to compose my paper.)

Any suggestions?

Thanks very much - Ed