Might be that the original is in landscape format. Try changing the page display and/or rotate. That has fixed similar issues for me in the past. Dave Composed on a Dell Latitude 630 in the general vicinity of my Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Francisco Bay Area. ----- Original Message ----- From: <crystallogic@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 09:57 Subject: PDF files and weird problem with text seeming to appear vertically Hello. I've noticed this with a seemingly large number of pdf files. I wonder if it has something to do with the "document processing" for accessibility feature? Essentially what appears to happen is that the text of a document turns "vertical", so that each line contains a single word, and using the down arrow appears to move the cursor one word at a time. If I convert the document to a text file, it ends up looking the same way...words just seem to cascade down the page in single file rather than displaying in the standard and sensible horizotnal way. Could somebody explain why this irritating phenomenon is taking place? I do not believe for a second that this is the actual visual appearance of these documents. Is there an easy fix for this? Surely others have encountered this too? Thanks. -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw Alternative archives located at: http://n2.nabble.com/JAWS-for-Windows-f2145279.html If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw Alternative archives located at: http://n2.nabble.com/JAWS-for-Windows-f2145279.html If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx