Acrobat Pro X changing text to boxes when saving

Have a fully patched Pro X installation on a Win XP machine. Working with a PDF created outside our company. If we make minor changes to the PDF, no matter what they are, and try to save, some of the text is changed to "boxes" similar to how a print job looks when using bad drivers. Only a specific font is changed - all other text saves normally. What would cause this?

I am having the same problem with a pdf I created from a Word document. I am using a Mac and Adobe XI. There are no images missing and the xs-in-boxes aren't even quite aligned with the text. They also only happen erratically to text that was originally in Word and also to text that I edit in the pdf. They can be deleted with some care but I am concerned that I keep discovering new ones every time I save the document, close it and reopen it. I am working in Archer Book and it is embedded in the pdf.

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