Mac users seeing jumbled characters when opening PDF

One of our company websites has multiple PDF downloads. PC users don’t have any problems opening PDFs from the site but Mac users seeing the following when they try to open a PDF from the site.
http://www.stanpro.com/downloads.aspx
%PDF-1.6 %âãÏÓ 207 0 obj <<>/Metadata 204 0 R/AcroForm 248 0 R/Pages 203 0 R/Type/Catalog>> endobj 204 0 obj <>stream uuid:df0e711f-70bc-4857-bdd1-275bcfcc6091 adobe:docid:indd:70b3223d-78fa-11dd-af15-b73c49d06c8d proof:pdf 70b3223c-78fa-11dd-af15-b73c49d06c8d adobe:docid:indd:70b32237-78fa-11dd-af15-b73c49d06c8d ReferenceStream 72.00 72.00 Inches uuid:39efc3b3-c5a6-4fba-9c26-db1dd9cdabc6 uuid:A72AE2EB8F63DB119478C1231986404D
What causes this problem for a Mac user?

Unfortunately we can't download a sample PDF unless registerd but, if they are seeing %PDF-1.6 in the text of the PDF when opening, my guess would be that they aren't opening it with Reader.
That is the code that they are viewing. Reader wouldn't show that. They may be opening it in Word or some other text editor.

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