Most of us want to create PDF Documents. All of us have unique reasons.

If you are good at something, you may even want to write PDF Ebooks and sell them!

So here's a simple solution, its free and open source. Produce grand, commercial PDF documents at no cost!

Now you need not purchase Adobe PDF creator or some other silly PDF printer or something...

NO, this is not that old trick of writing in OpenOffice.org and exporting it into PDF.

This uses a software called Lyx which is a document processor emphasizing on a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Mean (WYSIWYM) method (structure of documents ) instead of the normal What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG).

Lyx is based on TeX/LaTeX

(For more info on Tex/LaTeX check the above links)

In this editor, you can write your material and export it as DVI, PS, and PDF and many others (you can also import the same).

It supports images, tables, mathematics, and much more.

Its a sort of full-fledged book editor which normally a publishing company uses to create the electronic preview of physical books sold in the market, yeah of course there's a big difference this being Free and Open Source and companies use PAID softwares.

The complete list of features can be found at http://www.lyx.org/Features

Also an important point to mention is the Help Manual. LyX bundles the Help Manual with your install covering each aspect of LyX in detail.

There is a complete manual dedicated to how to using Mathmatics features in it.

I hope this helps you to save your pocket on PDF editor and create a clean PDF easily.

I know this is bit tough to use for the first time. Don't lose heart, it is easy.

But after reading the Help manual its really easy to use it.