Making scrolling credits....Need to copy kids names of a pdf.....

Hi there friends,
Ok, I have a "end of year" dance concert to be cut.
I have the program on a PDF, but I simply want to copy the names of the students off that and place into FCE to work on scrolling credits.
What is the best way to do it?? Save the document as another format??
Regards,
Chris

Find someone with a Windows system, open the PDF file there using Adobe Reader, then copy and paste the names into a plain text document. Open the text document on your Mac, then copy and paste into the text generator in FCE.
-DH

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