Pdf black background

I am importing some PDF files into Aperture. This works as expected except the background is black, meaning that any text appears as a black block.
Here's an example of what happens:
There is a big block of text on the left side of the page. Is there a way to change th background color? Or is that even the problem?
Thanks.
(Why am I doing this? I am a newspaper columnist and have about 250 columns that I want to make available on my blog. They are all available only in PDF format from my newspaper, and only for an entire page. And finding a way to make them available, and in a manner simple for the user, has been a long process, finally landing me, perhaps, into Flickr, which accepts the PDF files).

It's possible that part of the PDF is transparent and as such Aperture is rendering them as "clear."
Have you tried converting one or two of them to a TIFF or JPEG to see if it resolves the issue?
You could do the conversion via "save as" in Preview I'd think.

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