Garbled greek symbols and superscripts in PDF - new try

Hi everybody
I have troubles reading scientific pdf files where there are a lot of greek symbols and superscripts.
Sometimes, the display of the symbols is flawless, then the next time I open the very same pdf-file, all the symbols and superscripts are gone.
this is happening in Preview (default), Safari as well as Adobe Reader.
Carolyn Samit from Apple suggested to delete the preference files associaed with both Preview and Adobe Reader.
~/Library/Preferences.
com.apple.preview.plist
com.adobe.Reader.plist <--- wording might be slightly different.
This was helpful, but it's only a temporary solution as the mess was back after about 2 weeks.
Anybody got an idea how to fix it permanently?
Kind regards,
Alex

HI Alex,
Next time symbols and superscripts are MIA...
Go to the Safari Menu Bar, click Safari/Preferences. Make note of all the preferences under each tab. Quit Safari. Now go to ~/Library/Preferences and move this file com.apple.safari.plist to the Desktop.
Relaunch Safari. If you can read the symbols and scripts, move that .plist file to the Trash.
One more thing that might help is booting in Safe Mode. That empties the font cache.
Safe Mode
What is Safe Mode
Carolyn

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