Acrobat not displaying PDFs properly in browser

this seems to only happen on chrome where if viewed in browser some graphics, especially text isnt displayed properly or in this case not at all. You can see the "Fi" in financial is missing. This is a major problem because most people who view the site are hitting download and the PDF is being opened automatically within browser. Is there a fix for this? Did I export wrong in Indesign? Do fonts have to be rendered into an object before exporting as PDF (thats a hassle)?
BUT a quick fix is to download the PDF, view in browswer then refresh the page and all fonts display. Weird. This is a step that many will miss.
This is what it looks like when downloaded and viewed within acrobat. note the thicker font

You are probably viewing the PDF file in the Google Chrome PDF viewer and NOT the Adobe PDF Viewer.
1. Check your plug-ins by going to:
chrome://plugins
2. Go to the entry Chrome PDF Viewer.
3. If you see (enabled) then you are using Chrome's PDF viewer.
It's lacking in a lot of ways for functionality. Fonts is one of them.
4. You can disable it
5. Then go to the the listing for Adobe Reader
Adobe PDF Plug-in For Firefox and Netscape <versionNumber>
6. Then enable it.
7. Done

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