QuoteDoes anyone know where I can find a converter from latex to pdf for Which platform do you use?On Windows, try MiKTeX, it comes with pdftex that worked for me out of the box. And it's free, too.You can also try dvi -> ps -> pdf path with it, but I don't see a point to bother. Also, you would love the hypereff package support in pdflatex.

If you use Windows, MikTeX is a definitely good choice to obtain an out-of-the-box pdf-latex. It worked for me on various versions of Windows perfectly. The problems arise when you want to just process a ready document with images. The root of the complication is that pdf-TeX embeds some types of images in a different way than your TeX may do. As a result, some types of image files are not supported. For the others you need to explicitely specify image size, which is optional, for instance, in TeX included into MikTeX distribution.If you are writing a new document, just use Encapsulated Postscript (*.eps) files to store your images and your TeX and pdf-TeX will process them in the same way. For other types of images, in my experience, the best choice would be processing dvi->ps->pdf. Especially, if you use Adobe Distiller but not ps2pdf. However, the choice of converters doesn't matter that much.About the problem with the bottom halfs of breckets when printing on HP LaserJet... I experienced this problem whith HP LJ 4. However, when I printed the same document on HP LJ5, the breckets were printed properly. (Note, I printed documents over network on a different printer straight away. So, there was no difference in, say, version of Acrobat.) This helped me in all cases of such problems. Different version of Acrobat may help as well.