Fonts do not display

I have a .pdf that I am trying to view and cannot. The letters that are ? inside of boxes. I know that I was once able to view this particular .pdf at one point because I printed several copies for my friends. I do not know enough about fonts on the Mac and do not know where to look. Also, a .ppt here and there wil give me the same problems.
Here is a shot of what I can see. Obviously the PtoE should more useful than this.

1. Is there the same bad output if you try to view this table of Mendeleev in otner app, Adobe REader or Skim? They are both free, so give a try.
2. If the result is the same, then you have a problem with your fonts. Perhaps you deleted some fonts ior they have got corrupt. Download Onyx (watch the version, they are different for evey Mac OS generation), and clean font cache, restart, and test again.
If the situation persists. hm...
3., Check the same PDF on another computer, mac and PC. If the result is the same, then there is a problem with the PDF file itself. How old is that file? If you need this, the net is full of various such tables, e.g. smell-o-mints, free.

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