Can't read PDF's on the web

Hi, I'm trying to read PDF's hosted on the web, but all I get when I click to open is a page full of characters and symbols. I know the PDF's themselves are fine as my colleage is able to view them on their machine.
I've tried viewing in Safari (I use a MackBook Pro), Chrome and FireFox, but still not able to view. I can however, view/read PDF's sent to me or are already on my laptop.
Any ideas?

Hi,
I'm running the latest version of both so couldn't work out what the problem was. However, I did look around here and came across the following which solved the problem.
http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/display-pdf-browser-acrobat-xi.html
Thanks

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