When I Copy Text From Preview, It Pastes Gibberish

More & more frequently, when I copy text from a pdf doc opened in Preview, it pasts gibberish.
I sue to be able to quit preview in 10.5.x, now on my new iMac 10.6.x, it keeps pasting the same old gibberish.
Besides using Reader, is there anything else that I can do because I like preview.

Sounds like a mucked up font database. Restart into safe mode (hold down the SHIFT key during restart and after the chime), then restart normally. Details in http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1455 Afterwards, launch Font Book, reset any collections, validate your fonts, and then resolve duplicates.

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