Broken PDF?

First of all, first post, so nice to meet you all, and nice to be here as well.
So here's the problem. I've been creating some pdf for my college assignment. Needless to say, Adobe Acrobat was one of the first choice for creating pdf. Therefore, i chose it.
Everything seems to be fine, until i saved the pdf, then exits Acrobat. The next day, i open it, and find tons of faulty everywhere:
- Missing letters on random places
- One big textbox turned into one textbox per line
Of course, i did not notice that until i prints it. Minus marks everywhere.
So i need help about this. I dunno what i did wrong.
I found several similar case in the forum, but they're either importing pdf, combining pdf, or exporting.
In my case, i'm editing a pre-existing pdf.
This happens more than once, and it's getting annoying to edit. Please help.
Here's the PDF i've been working on: Dropbox - Desain Pasif David Christian 1305003137.pdf

This file works fine for me in Acro 6.
Cheers, OTN

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