diff --git a/website/Makefile b/website/Makefile
index 6032d149..202e2d13 100644
--- a/website/Makefile
+++ b/website/Makefile
@@ -9,5 +9,16 @@ coverage:
 	sphinx-build -b coverage ${SPHINXOPTS} sphinx/build/coverage
 	cat sphinx/build/coverage/python.txt
 
+.PHONY: latex
+latex:
+	sphinx-build -b latex $(SPHINXOPTS) sphinx/build/latex
+
+# Building a pdf requires a latex installation.  For macports, the needed
+# packages are texlive-latex-extra and texlive-fonts-recommended.
+# The output is in sphinx/build/latex/tornado.pdf
+.PHONY: pdf
+pdf: latex
+	cd sphinx/build/latex && pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode tornado.tex
+
 clean:
-	rm -rf sphinx/build
\ No newline at end of file
+	rm -rf sphinx/build
diff --git a/website/sphinx/conf.py b/website/sphinx/conf.py
index d429c724..86992f44 100644
--- a/website/sphinx/conf.py
+++ b/website/sphinx/conf.py
@@ -76,5 +76,5 @@ html_theme_options = dict(
     )
 
 latex_documents = [
-    ('index', 'tornado', 'Tornado Documentation', 'Facebook', 'manual', False),
+    ('index', 'tornado.tex', 'Tornado Documentation', 'Facebook', 'manual', False),
     ]