I would think that you do not have the Accessability set-up. If you are running a screen reader you have to set up accessability. Other than that I am happy ifyou want to send me the book via an attachment and I will look and see if I am able to open and save to text file. My e-mail address is eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: Vincent stack To: vip students Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 11:18 PM 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