Hi Vincent, I had this recently with a 4 page legal document. I was using the latest adobe reader. I got the same message and a sighted friend told me the file was up on the screen. I am using the latest adobe. I will have to check later but I think that when I used a different computer with an older version of adobe it worked fine. I am bed ridden with a virus at the moment. Kind regards Aedan -----Original Message----- From: vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vincent stack Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 11:19 PM To: vip students Subject: [vip_students] adobe question hello again i have a 375 page pdf book. i am trying to open it and it is telling me "alert blank document". i have sighted assistance that is telling me that the document is there with text on it. i have also tried to do a save as text and that is not working. does anyone know what i need to do to save this as a text document please. many thanks. regards Vincent Vincent