Selecting Text from Preview

well, actually selecting text is not the problem, it's the pasting of the selected text.
Let me explain.
I've got a friend who is blind. He is a music-teacher and I help him out, creating playlists in iTunes. Since he is not able to read pdf-files in Braille, I used to preview the playlist, select all text, copy and paste it in a Text-file.
I did have this little trick of find & replace, that I used to add a Return to the end of a line, so he would get a readable list.
Since I bought my new Mac, it did came with *Preview 5*, which works just the way Acrobat does. When I select text, it is selected in Columns, when I paste it, I get all information of column 1, followed by all information in column 2, a.s.o.
Does anybody know a workable solution? Is it possible to install an older version of Preview (*Preview 2.1.0* worked fine) next to the newer one?
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J. Pas

Thank you for your response.
Acrobat is the solution indeed. I can save the lists as pdf, open in Acrobat Reader & select the text like I used to in Preview.
(Which, by the way is strange, it never was possible this way in Acrobat.... That's why I was so happy with the old Preview.
Thank you again. I hope that in the future I can help somebody with the little things I know.
Greetings
J.Pas

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