Preview PDF files drop letters when printed.

I have a problem with PDF's printing without lower-case letter o's and upper-case X's. This is both to my Brother Laser Printer AND my HP C309.
It may be Mac software at a low level, because when I print a PDF to Yojimbo, the lower-case o's and upper-case X's are also missing. There may be others, but those are the two letters I noticed.
The screen displays are OK and PDF's generated to Yojimbo from Safari are OK.
The same downloaded PDF file that dropped the o's and X's print OK when opened with Acrobat Reader.
Is this a Preview problem? I'm running Preview Version 5.0.3 (504.1).

Thanks for the pointers. I did find some duplicates with Font Book and deleted them. I don't have any duplicates between the System and User fonts and have not installed Office X. I do have Office 98 installed under Fusion.
As I mentioned, the PDF files print fine with Acrobat Reader. This is a very recent error. I have a long list of PDF files saved to Yojimbo and none have any dropped letters until yesterday.
Thanks for any further suggestions.

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