Certain PDF documents not spotlight-indexed nor copy/paste to TextEdit

Hello,
I've got a problem with certain PDF documents and Preview.app. I can read them perfectly by eye (I understand there's an overlying image?) but the text characters, when copied and pasted into TextEdit, are little rectangles with a tiny alien face (?) inside. TextEdit states the font is "LastResort", but doesn't allow to change the font, nor can I save the TextEdit document ("UTF-8 cannot be used for saving the document").
The worst about all is that Spotlight doesn't recognise the PDF files, they are not indexed, so I cannot search for text inside.
I tried to open the PDF document with Adobe Reader, which opens the document, copies and pastes into TextEdit without a problem, so I believe the problem must be on the Preview.app and/or System end.
Any solution, or is this a bug? Thanks for any help!

Any solution, or is this a bug?
I think this has to do with the way some pdf files are constructed, mapping text to the Unicode Private Use Area (reflected by those Last Resort symbols you see) plus shortcomings of Preview compared to Adobe Reader. The only fix is to use the latter, and tell Apple you want Preview improved:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

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