Why is Preview not displaying fonts correctly?

Since the last Snow Leopard upgrade, Preview is not displaying some fonts correctly. I checked to see if the fonts were embedded in the PDF (by resorting to Adobe Acrobat 5... which is not displaying them correctly either) and they are True Type with Windows encoding which as far as I know Preview OS X should be able to handle.
I tried deleting the Preview preferences in User/Library/Prefeerences and restarting but this made no difference. The same PDF works perfectly though on an old iMac that is running OS X Tiger!!!

Well I found a few minor font problems which seem to have cropped up since the last system upgrade, but none of those were the font in question. Also, as I understand it, the whole point of PDF documents is that the fonts are embedded in the document so you do not have to have the fonts installed on your computer to view the PDF properly. I use a lot of special fonts and when I save documents as a PDF I can send them to anyone on the internet and they can usually see everything as it is meant to be.

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I'd like to report a problem we are experiencing viewing or printing the PDFs using Preview.
We receive regularly PDF files from one of our clients that are created using PDF-XChange (on Windows Computers). The files are on PDF standard 1.4 and include the font Calibri (embedded on the PDF file and also installed on my MacBook Pro)
On opening the files (in Lion) in Preview app. I only see question marks instead of the text.
However these PDFs open correctly using Adobe Reader on the same machines. The files also display correctly on iPhone, iPad, windows PCs, and on other Macs running Snow Leopard. This problems started to happen after we migrated to Lion (we could, and still can, open the files on macs running snow leopard).
In Preview.app I can copy the "question marks" and past in text edit, where they do appear correctly!

Well I found a few minor font problems which seem to have cropped up since the last system upgrade, but none of those were the font in question. Also, as I understand it, the whole point of PDF documents is that the fonts are embedded in the document so you do not have to have the fonts installed on your computer to view the PDF properly. I use a lot of special fonts and when I save documents as a PDF I can send them to anyone on the internet and they can usually see everything as it is meant to be.

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How can I fix this? How can the author help me to fix this?
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I've discovered what is causing the problem, but I still need a way to fix it, if possible.
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PREVIEW 4.1 not displaying fonts correctly.

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What is going on here? Is there some solution? I prefer Preview because it is fast ans versitile, but if it doesn't actually display the whole thing...

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Kindly provide me the solution for the same at the earliest.Have to deliver the object by tommorrow.
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Hi
Which SRM version are you using ?
Please see the below mentioned SAP OSS Notes, which will help ->
Note 1113156 Post processing of BAdI BBP_WF_LIST not correct
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Note 557295 Changes in the interface of BBP_WF_LIST
Note 386468 Backend POs not taken into account in BADI BBP_WF_LIST
Note 549846 FAQ: Goods receipt confirmation
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