Issue with pdf file exported out of Pages

Hi all,
I created a Pages document. I am able to export it to pdf. The pdf document looks fine. However if a user (PC or Mac, different computers) tries to copy text out of the created pdf document and paste it into another application (whatever the appli), the pasted text contains only ONE word per line. This is extremely annoying since I want to share my pdf file with people who will need to copy/paste part of my text.
I am a new convert to Pages. This was my first "real" document creation. I tried with other documents and they did not have this strange behavior. This suggests there is something specific in my pages document that creates this behaviour.
Please help,
thanks,
laurent

The pdf document looks fine.
PDF 1.x embeds the font data to be drawn in the document after stripping and subsetting the intelligent font on disk. If you want to share graphic appearance, then PDF is generally a good idea.
However if a user (PC or Mac, different computers) tries to copy text out of the created pdf document and paste it into another application (whatever the appli), the pasted text contains only ONE word per line. This is extremely annoying since I want to share my pdf file with people who will need to copy/paste part of my text.
PDF 1.x does not embed ('encode') the input of characters, PDF 1.x embeds ('encodes') glyphs from which characters are inferred if the POST table in the intelligent font has the font-independent glyph identifiers for TrueType fonts from which characters can be inferred, or, if a PostScript font is used, if correct font-independent glyph identifiers were used in the PostScript name array.
PDF 1.x also does not necessarily embed ('encode') logical content information that defines a concept of 'tables', 'columns' and more as extractable blocks of copy.
If you want to share character information and content information (logical structure), then PDF 1.x is generally not such a good idea.
Subsetting and stripping of intelligent fonts is done in a higher system level service than streaming into PS, so the suggestion that streaming into PS solves anything, though sometimes found in user fora, is not a sound one, "It (font subsetting, ed) is happening WAY BEFORE it hits PS - it is done up in Quartz and the PDF generator so the pdf->ps component is already getting subset fonts," Leonard Rosenthol in 2003, Adobe PDF Standards Architect since 2006.
/hh
Reference:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/printing/2003/Nov/msg00109.html

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