How do I copy from Photoshop and paste in Illustrator with a transparent background?

How do I copy from Photoshop and paste in Illustrator with a transparent background?
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answer:I’m using Photoshop & Illustrator CS3, and this doesn’t happen to in this version. A suggestion (this will take a little longer than copy paste) would be to do a ‘save for web’ as a PNG-24 from photoshop, and place this in Illustrator, which will retain the transparency…
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