Thanks for the vote of confidence for copying to Text Edit, I think the file was an e-book with a whack of graphics. I tried one with the same number of pages but all text and it was fine. Has anyone tried the Doxillion text converter from NCH? I've used a bunch of their stuff with Windows and it worked great, but the Mac version of Doxillion quit every time I tried to convert a pdf, which is what it is for. Cheers, Ian On 2012-02-20, at 11:36 PM, Tuscia-Falconer wrote: > I selected a 400 page pdf from 'Skim', the reader I use and copied and pasted > it into 'Text Edit' without a problem. > > TF> >> Click on the link below to go to our homepage. >> http://www.icanworkthisthing.com >> >> Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. >> //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >> >> Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to >> macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web >> interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >> > > Click on the link below to go to our homepage. > http://www.icanworkthisthing.com > > Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. > //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover > > Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to > macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web > interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >