No, I thought you just wanted the text. I've never tried this, but see if Pages 
will open it.
> On Mar 5, 2016, at 08:54, Christopher-Mark Gilland <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Yeah... but will that keep all the formatting?  I said it was mainly text.  I 
> never once said that text wasn't formatted though.
>  
> Chris.
>  
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: Alex Hall <mailto:[email protected]>
>> To: 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries 
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>> Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2016 8:02 AM
>> Subject: Re: converting a document
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>> One option is to open it with Preview like normal, then cmd-a and cmd-c to 
>> copy all the text. Open Text Edit to a new document, paste, and that should 
>> be that.
>>> On Mar 5, 2016, at 07:58, Chris Gilland <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> guys,
>>> 
>>> I have a bit of a dilemma. i'm sure that this is been discussed here 
>>> before, but at the time, I really didn't need to do it.
>>> 
>>> I have an Adobe acrobat PDF file which I need to convert to TXT format. 
>>> what is going to be the easiest way to do this. This needs to be done 
>>> fairly urgently. The document is pretty much plaintext, and actually was 
>>> written by a blind individual, so it's not like it has a bunch of graphics 
>>> or anything of sort in it.
>>> 
>>> thank you profusely for any help that you may be able to provide!
>>> 
>>> Chris.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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