I'm finally at home with an adult beverage and so can be more relaxed about some personal play time.
I really haven't had the need to get into the the full blown version of Adobe Acrobat, but I've tried the work arounds that I know. The image programs that I've used (JPegger, XnView, IrfanView) don't work. My PDF converter works between PDF and Word files. The only way I can make this work is your suggestion Phil. "Control+L" in Acrobat Reader (the background colour can be changed in the Preferences), then "Alt+PrtSc". This can then be pasted into Paint and saved as a JPG from there. Seems to be a lot of quality loss, but it works.
Thanks for helping me through this.
