You're right. This functionality is totally hosed.

I don't know how long it has been broken, since I don't save to PDF in this way.

Saving the entire document as a PDF seems to work fine. Save Selection as PDF is also hosed. However, save selection as PNG works well.

This was in issue with the various Mathematica 10 betas -- PDF rendering in general, not just copy as -- and appears to be still broken.

If you Print and then select PDF, then the plot is also messed up, but in a different way. I attached a sample.

My guess is that if you save the notebook as PDF, it uses the OS's PDF renderer, which works fine, and if you Print a PDF, it uses Mathematica's PDF renderer -- as does all the copy/paste options -- but that is only a guess.

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Hi all,

maybe I am missing the primary topic of this post, but here I just have to make a more general remark:

Generating vector graphics is of importance, and for vector graphics there are two prominent formats: .eps and .pdf . My experience here (working basically on Linux, up to now v10.0.1) is a bit frustrating: When I save some notebook as pdf, the output (file size) is just huge. Before beeing able to e.g. email it I have to re-print it as pdf which reduce the size at a factor of 10!

When I save a graphic as .eps (a format I really need!) I have to open the resulting file with a text editor and delete an enormous amount of binary junk. A workaround - at any rate!

Cheers Henrik