Black background in transparant images

Let me 1st explain what is happening.
1/ Place a Photoshop image with transparent background in Illustrator.
2/ Save a 1.5 pdf (or higher).
3/ Open the pdf in Acrobat, select the image, copy it.
4/ Open Photoshop, make new image and past the image you copied b4 from Acrobat.
You will see that the transparency is filled in with a black color.
Why is this?
And can this be changed, so i can have a whit background?
Thanks

I don't imagine you will be able to copy and paste an image with
transparency. Maybe using the Object Touch-up Tool in Acrobat Pro to
open the image directly in Acrobat will preserve the transparency, but
not if it was done with a clipping path.
Aandi Inston

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