On 21.01.2013 19:05, JOYCE POLZIN wrote:
> Is there an application other than gscan2pdf (which doesn't work)

have a look at xsane, works for me.
-Jens

So how do you get the Portable Document Format (PDF) files readable in windoze?

Other linux machines don;t have an issue reading them but the minute I send one to a windows user or file share both FoxIt and Adobe report that the file either is not a pdf or is damaged.