"Judith Evans" writes: : I thought Adobe had an online utility that did it, but it seems not. I : found this, which seems similar : : http://www.gohtm.com/ : : this : : http://www.pdfutility.com/ with a free demo download (that will replace some : characters randomly!) : : and this : : http://www.solidpdf.com/ (.pdf to Word) with a free 15-day trial download [snip] : : : Any idea how to translate a .pdf to .txt without paying a fortune? : : -tor I don't know it it works with MSwindows, but there is a program called ps2ascii that runs on Linux that comes with a program called Ghostscript that can sometimes do the job. And it's free as in both beer and speech. -- Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH EMAIL: junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://samsara.law.cwru.edu NOTE: junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx no longer exists ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html