Preview not showing some text in certain PDFs

I've had issues with a couple of PDFs this year that did not display correctly in Preview, but are viewable in Acrobat Reader. An example is here on pages 31-36. Preview shows blank gridlines, but Acrobat Reader shows text and numeric data in those cells. It appears Adobe may have enabled some kind of text flag that Preview is ignoring in one of their authoring programs?

An example is [here|http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5227378.pdf] on pages 31-36. Preview shows blank gridlines,
I tried downloading the pdf file at that link, and in my system Preview displays those pages properly:
You might try running the [OS X v10.6.6 combo update|http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1349] - it contains some updated Preview components which might include something that is currently missing in your system.

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Have managed to fix this already. Been working the issue for a few days now, and a few minutes after writing the above post I decided to reset the Time Capsule to factory default settings.
After entering all my details again (used same network names, passwords etc) the Time Capsule was rebooted. When it came back on line - guess what? Yep, the MyBook WD drive is now visibile. I can connect via the network from my other machines to the drive, and iTunes is back.
So - thought I would post my resolution in case it helps others.

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salma15 wrote:
why is my ipad not showing some music icons?
You are speaking about album art I assume? Is the album art in iTunes on your computer?
Like some of them do have them and some of them dont also my computer ad ipad doesnt have the same music
Probably because all of the Music wasn't selected to sync from iTunes. When the iPad is connect to iTunes on your computer, you can select Sync Entire Library in the Music Tab of iTunes if you want all of your music on the iPad.
Take a look at this.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1351
this one might help as well.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12313

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Hi mentane,
Thank you for posting on the Adobe forums, what is the version of Adobe Reader you are working with.
Open Adobe Reader>Adobe Reader>about Adobe Reader.
Thanks,
Vikrantt Singh

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