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I'm using the rectangular selection tool in Preview.
I've now discovered that this happens in all pdfs: when I select and copy an area of the page using "rectangular selection" the area that eventually gets transposed is the same shape and size as I intended but is always cut out of the bottom left hand side of the relevant page. This only happens for pdfs not pictures selected in the same way.
What puzzles me most is in the original example: I had selected and copied a graph in a pdf report on the old computer (snow leopard??) and it all worked as expected, but when I moved the .ppt to the new computer (lion) and the graph was replaced by text... At the time, that text (the original pdf report) wasn't stored anywhere on the new computer... it existed only on the old one!?