Always best to work round a problem than to sort it out hahaha. I realised this was a bit of a game ("you come up with a solution and I'll tell you why it won't work") and an exercise in pointlessness

I did realise you didn't have the software. Having said that, it also wouldn't have been hard to find it but that's by the way. I'm sure I'm not alone in having 5 or 6 Adobe suites (from 4.0 through 6.0 through CS2 and CS3 to CS6) of most of the products that are in common use and might even have been of help.

Good fun and I learned something which is great. And if I ever have a hard disk fail again I will be back up and running in no time. Happy xmas.