Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

The weirdest thing is happening on my computer - I'll try to explain but it's a bit confusing.

I have 2 macbook pros, one about 4-5years old and a new one which I am transitioning to.

I have to give an updated version of a presentation that I gave a few months ago, so I copied ONLY the .ppt from the old computer to the new one to work on it. On one of the slides, I show a figure of a graph copied from a pdf, however on the new computer rather than the graph I see the text that comes just below it. my first thought was that I was viewing a larger image that had moved within a smaller text box and that I just needed to reposition the window, but I couldn't get this to work - there didn't seem to be any more to the image than the area of text that was displayed. Whats even more weird is that there isn't a copy of the original pdf report anywhere on the computer so I don't know where it is retrieving the text from?

So, I went back to the old computer to check the original and sure enough, everything is as it is meant to be with the graph displaying nicely. So, I copied a version of the original pdf report onto the new computer with the intention of just making a new slide from scratch. Now, when I select and copy the graph out of the pdf and try to paste it, I get the block of text beneath instead. VERY FRUSTRATING.

I've now tried it on other pdfs and when I select and copy any rectangular section of pdf, the area that ends up being transposed is not the selected area but an area a couple of inches below it [actually it's always the area at the bottom left of the page].

Any suggestions?

What are you using to view the pdf and what tool are you using to select the area?