In a message dated 11/14/2002 10:41:56 PM Central Standard Time, fina@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > what are those? Fina QuarkXPress is a page layout program used by many publishers. For more info visit www.quark.com. This program which is available in both Windows and Macintosh platforms is used by the majority of elementary and secondary textbook publishers. It can handle all that crazy visual stuff they are putting in books these days. I have extracted text from several documents in Quark with good results; however, extracting text from the most complex files can be problematic. Warren