Fonts problem in Preview, but not Adobe Reader

Hi. I am preparing content within Sibelius (music writing software) - I use v.6.2 on my PC and create PDF files using Nitro PDF driver.
Nearly all the people using my files are Mac users (on whose behalf I am writing!) and who have never had a problem viewing or printing the PDFs, until now.
On opening the files (in Lion) in Preview app. there are certain font sets which have problems displaying correctly; the fonts are embedded within the PDFs yet some font characters appear, some do not. These problem fonts are TTF types (VT Corona, Garrison Sans, e.g.). However these PDFs view correctly within Adobe Reader on the same machines. The files are also viewable on iPhone, iPad, PC (both PDF-XChange & Adobe Reader) and on other Macs running Snow Leopard.
I have found streams of information about an issue in 10.6.7 with OpenType Postscript fonts not displaying, yet this problem was in third-party apps, with Preview never affected. After a few hours combing here, and the web, I now ask the community! Many thanks.

I'm experiencing the same issues when opening PDF created by PDF-XChange.
They open correctly on Adobe (for mac) but only show question marks on Preview (on all mac computers we have at the office).
The font in question is Calibri and I confirmed the fonts are embedded.

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