Poreview is a built in app that reads PDF files on the Mac. You may be dealing with a PDF which is a picture of writing: and, if this is the case, you will need to run OCR on it.
Sent from my mac Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On Feb 19, 2013, at 8:50 PM, Jessica Moss <junglebookfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've just downloaded a program I found out when doing a google search called > Skim, that's supposed to read pdf files, however when I try to open one, it > just says "pluggin process," and sits there like I never did anything extra. > Do I need to have the aplication running in the background, or should it > launch automaticly? This is really frustrating, sense this is something I'm > needing to look over, so would really love some help with. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.