Chinese characters missing in PDFs (Preview)

Hi there!
In many of the Chinese language PDFs from journal articles, bits are missing: rare characters, western letters and numbers. The PDFs display fine in Adobe Reader, but not in Preview, Devonthink, and on the iPad in PDF expert.
Any suggestions what I can do to get these display properly? As a historian, a lot of my material contains rare charaters.
Thanks in advance!

Too bad that is the case... Adobe Reader is not my favourite app, but if it is the only way I can see what the number of a footnote is, I don't have much choice
Thanks Tom! I'll just hope somebody else drops by with a miracle cure.

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