PDF copied to Pages = words jammed together, now what?

I copy a portion of a PDF book using ⌘ + C. Then I use "Paste & Match Style" to place the copied portion of the PDF onto a Pages document. Not only is there lots of extra spacing between the bullets and sentences, but there is an irregular pattern of no spacing between words. Thank you for any ideas.

One more problem solved my my good old huge AppleScript :
set the clipboard to the clipboard as text
copy from the source document
run the script (here it's always available in the Scripts menu)
paste where you want.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 28 novembre 2010 15:47:52

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