PDFpen looks like a great alternative to Acrobat, Doug. I'd never heard of it before. It apparently does let you cut, copy, paste and edit text out of or into a PDF, and also lets you change the text's format. It doesn't do a number of the more esoteric things Acrobat is capable of, but it sure seems to handle the heavy lifting, and it's a heck of a lot cheaper to buy -- about a third of Acrobat's cost. Another page of the website has an impressive feature-by-feature comparison: http://www.smileonmymac.com/PDFpen/compare.html ------------------------------------------- dplumley@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Would this work? There is also a free trial. > http://smileonmymac.com/PDFpen/ --- MUGLO information at <http://www.freewebs.com/muglo> Manage list subscription options at <//www.freelists.org/list/muglo>