aamolsch at shentel.net said: >I found a terrific drag-and-drop utility on VersionTracker >that quickly converts text PDFs to RTF files: TextLightening. I was going to say that the company that made TextLightning, MetaObject, was defunct (their site has been down for months), but I just checked, and the site is back up and newly updated. http://www.metaobject.com/Products.html TextLightning $27 Randy B. Singer Co-Author of: The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th and 6th editions) Routine OS X Maintenance and Generic Troubleshooting http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html