Dropbox won't show my pdfs properly

It's been about 10 days that Safari seems to have a problem with Dropbox.
Problem is this: I run a webiste and I link my pdf files to my Dropbox account (visitor clicks on a photo and gets redirected to Dropbox to get the pdf). Ten days ago, everything worked ok, now ALL my pdfs look like this
Yet, when I downloaded some of them, they are ok and only SEEM to be ruined. I already contacted Dropbox Support and replied to me that this is not something they can do about it, since everything looks as it should when I use Google Chrome! Here is a snapshot of the document above as it should appear (shot taken using Chrome).
(It's in greek, don't bother trying to understand it, unless you're Greek, lol).
Why is this happening? What's wrong? I haven't messed up with any of Safari's preferances. Oh, by the way, a friend of mine was seeing everything ok in his Safari, while another one no (in Safari as well).
Thank you in advance!

Back up all data.
Triple-click the line of text below to select it, the copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C):
/Library/Internet Plug-ins
In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder
from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-G. Paste into the text box that opens (command-V), then press return.
From the folder that opens, remove any items that have the letters “PDF” in the name. You may be prompted for your login password. Then quit and relaunch Safari, and test.
The "Silverlight" web plugin distributed by Microsoft can also interfere with PDF display in Safari, so you may need to remove it as well, if it's present.
If you still have the issue, repeat with this line:
~/Library/Internet Plug-ins
If you don’t like the results of this procedure, restore the items from the backup you made before you started. Relaunch Safari again.

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