Grainy text after pasting into preview

Hi,
I've been having a problem with Preview after upgrading to OS 10.9 Mavericks. Before Mavericks, I used to construct figures with graphics and text within applications like Keynote. When I was happy with it, I would select the bit I'd want to save, and then copy and paste it into Preview. From there I could save as a pdf and everything would retain very high resolution (e.g., text wouldn't appear grainy, and would appear exactly as it did in Keynote irrespective of how far I zoomed in on it).
However, what happens now is that once I copy and paste into preview, the text now appears very low resolution, and I can't seem to figure out how to get Preview to simply take what I have on my clipboard and paste it as it was from Keynote.
Contrary to this, I find that if I use Keynote to export as PDF and use 'Best' for Image Quality, I get text that looks like what I used to get with older versions of the OS. However, the reason I don't use this option is because I can't control what is selected for exporting to PDF, whereas, my method of copying and pasting my selected content into Preview used to work much better...
Any suggestions about why this is now happening in Preview for Mavericks and how to get around it?

I submitted a request to fix the thread and submitted a bug request.
Thanks!
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(1) First, let's make sure we're talking about the same thing. By "SImpleText, E-Mails" you mean TextEdit and Mail, right?
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From: shawninvancouver <[email protected]>
To:Linda Highlander <[email protected]>
Date: 8/3/2011 10:44 AM
Subject: Cp5 - Pasting text from Notepad into a text box
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