PDF's and Preview...

Under Tiger, I used to be able to Select a portion of any PDF file and paste it into Pages without losing any quality. Now, under Leopard, when I try and select a portion of any PDF, then paste it into Pages, it pastes the entire PDF in there. Any reason why? How do I set up Preview to truly select and paste the protion I am selecting?

I have the same very annoying problem: selecting a bit of pdf to paste into Pages or Keynote was very useful, specially as Preview is smart for transparency.
Further comments:
1) cropping still works on bitmap formats (jpeg, png...), but no longer in pdf.
2) you don't need to paste into Pages to test this: just
a) select a rectangle in a pdf file,
b) crop it (with Apple-K): eveything not selected disappears OK
c) save it as cropped.pdf
d) open cropped.pdf: youget the full page back...
Alternatively, you could
b') copy the selection (with Apple-C)
c') make it a new file (with Apple-N): the new file contains the full page...
With Tiger and before, both d) and c') would give you only the selected piece.
Maybe the plan was to "mask" instead of really cropping. But masking should then work!

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