<div class="gmail_quote">2012/7/14 Jack <<a href="mailto:arkiedriver@gmail.com" target="_blank">arkiedriver@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> How does one do a word search in a PDF file??? JJ -- xubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> it depends on the kind of pdf you are trying to read, if its one that has searchable text just press ctrl-f like in web browsers, if its a pdf consisting on scans of text then its not searchable because they are just images -- Bruno.-