PDF text is unreadable on screen and in print-out

One of my co-workers brought to me several PDF saves of the homepage of the Chicago Tribune and an article from the Wall Street Journal. The format of the document looks normal, but a portion of the text form the Tribune page and nearly the entire page from the WSJ is unreadable. My guess is that it is just a font issue within Acrobat, however, I tried checking and unchecking the box within preferences that says to "Use local fonts only" to no avail.
Within the "Fonts Used in this Document" window there are 6 fonts listed (four for WSJ article). Five of them are true-type and have four different lines of information under each of them. The sixth font has an 'a' symbol next to and is called Courier (Embedded Subset) and underneath has the following two lines of information--Type: Type 1; Encoding: Custom. A guess I have is that this font is the problem. My question is how do I get Acrobat to ignore that font and go to something local that I have installed on my computer?

I looked at the files, but unfortunately I could not tell any more. It is definitely a font issue and it may be that the local fonts I have are not the same as the font used by the person who created the PDF. Keep in mind that just because the name is the same does not mean it is identical. I was able to go to WSJ, but not get into the article (I am not a subscriber). I will look a bit at creating the file later tonight.
The document properties show
which is the same results I got from AA9. I just don't know where the fonts are coming from. When I created a print from the CT in my normal browser, all of the fonts showed up as standard Windows fonts. When I printed from IE 10, I got the following font description:
This screen suggests that IE is trying to provide some substitution. Your file from the CT shows standard Arial fonts, but they don't display correctly. It would appear that the problem is at the creation end, but I am not sure of the problem. At least this may give you some food for thought. Sorry that I can't help more.

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