PDF documents appear jumbled in Preview

Hi,
When I view PDF files created on a PC, in Preview the text is replaced by jibberish and square boxs. I have been told that the font is Arial. This font is installed on my Mac.
Can I find out from Preview why it displays the PDF incorrectly or what font it thinks is missing. Are there any error reports available.?
If I select the unreadable text, copy and paste into Word, I can read the text!
It looks fine on other PCs but not other Macintoshes
Any suggestions would be most helpful.
Many thanks
David

Though it may be true that Acrobat does a better job with fonts than Preview does and it may serve as a reasonable workaround, it does not answer the actual question: How to get Arial and/or other broken fonts to display correctly in Preview.
I'm having the same problem. A group I belong to publishes a newsletter using M$ Publisher. A recent auto-upgrade resulted in several of us receiving gibberish.
We did some testing, and couldn't find a single otherwise-common font that would work across the PC/Mac divide.
So it would be nice to know if this is a problem that originates and is fixable with Preview, or if we're just out of luck with Preview.
I have tried a recent Acrobat, and the latest version does work. I don't know if the others who are experiencing this problem are viewing in Acrobat or Preview.
I have found that you can copy the gibberish text out of the PDF and paste it into another application (in my case, I tried Eudora and Word) and at least read it there. So it seems to be a problem with Preview itself.
For the record, I'm using Preview 2.1.0 (v211) on OS 10.3.9 with all relevant updates.

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