2.5.3.3. ...making a PDF instead of printing?

Many applications that don't provide PDF output do provide the ability to print to a file instead of printing to an output queue; this feature can be used to save a PostScript copy of the print request, which you can then convert to a PDF by using Ghostscript via the ps2pdf script.

For example, you could "print" from Firefox to the file bankstatement.ps and then convert bankstatement.ps to bankstatement.pdf with this command:

$ ps2pdf bankstatement.ps

The resulting PDF file can be viewed with Evince, xpdf, or Adobe Acrobat Reader (not installed by default).