Yosemite Preview Highlighting Problems

I use Preview all the time for school. It has been working fine on my iMac, but on my MacBook Air I've been having problems since the semester started up again on Monday.
I cannot use the right click menu inside of a PDF document to highlight material on the MBA. On my iMac, this works fine in the same PDF file (Synced via Dropbox). If I select the highlight tool from the menubar, I can highlight text, but when I click on the highlighted text, I cannot change the color of the text using the right-click menu.
I've tried restarting, clearing the com.apple.Preview files, logging in to safe mode, and creating a new user and the problem persists. Any ideas of what else I could try?

I have the same problem in my MacBook Pro(Mid2012), after update 10.10.2 beta 2. Right click in Preview cannot highlight PDF, while highlight using tool bar works well. This problem prevent me from using Preview in my MacBook.
Another problem is that, after updated to Yosemite. Text inserted to pdf is not well organized. It seems that the display border of text have been changed in Preview (Yosemite). This bugs made my previous annotated pdf files look ugly, even if they are annotated by Preview (mavericks). Interestingly, these files are displayed correctly in Goodreader, PDF Expert 5, and Dropbox.

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I use Preview for reading all my PDF'es. And I highlight the text, underline, draw speech bubbles, arrows, boxes, etc
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I click on View > Highlight and Notes to open up the left-hand side pane (in Preview)
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The above 2 screen shots refer to the same passage in the "bad" PDF. You notice that the second image show the text is not garbage but when you highlight the entire paragraph, it become "corrupted"
The above image shows what happen if I copy and paste to TextEditor.
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Apologise if I did not narrate the problem clearly.

Hey!
I don't know if you already solved the problem but I came accross with the same issue and found a quick fix. First there are many threads with this topic as old as from 2007. In any case, it seems it has something to do with embeded fonts, and is nearly impossible to fix that. Although there is somebody proposing to save it as TIFF and then using OCR to recognize the text and put together all those TIFF generated pages. I did try that fix once but it was time consuming and I gave up. Anyway, today I just found a fix based on that recommendation. This one gets the TIFF in the same application without having to save different files. These are the steps.
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Hope it helps an let me know if it works!

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