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> The only thing I would add to the excellent replies is that
> no one seems to have mentioned the dvipdfm utility,
> part of the teTeX package, which generates pdf
> directly from your .dvi file;  no need to convert
> ps to pdf.

Because pdflatex(1) can output PDF directly from the same LaTeX
source file as for DVI. Better than to convert *from* DVI... :)

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-jg.