Hi Ashish -=20 Sometimes, PDF document authors place additional security on their = documents to prevent you from doing just exactly what you are trying to = do. Probably they don't appreciate the impact of their actions. You have a few options: 1) you could approach the document authors, and request them to provide = you with an iunsecured version of the PDF file. 2) Adobe has some online conversion tools; basically you give Adobe the = PDF and they give you a text file back. There are 2 ways of doing this; either via email or a web interface. = Both are available on the page at: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html=20 Once you are on this page, look for "Online conversion tools". There is = a list immediately below with links to the email and web interfaces. Good luck! /Peter=20 From: "ashish" <ashish_rohtagi@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: adobe help Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 14:20:22 +0530 hello friends, I have some office 2000 tutorials, they are in PDF form, = I tried to save them as text using adobe 6, but jaws said that menu item = was unavailable, I tried to select them but got this message, "this document = is secured selection is not aloud" I am not comfortable with adobe, is = there such a way that I can save this document as text? regards -- 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 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