PDF with Chinese text is unreadable?

Hi,
Ive tried the language packs but they don't help.
We have a chinese client who sends us PDFs with Chinese and English text in them, but the fonts are all messed up? It is unreadable because all the text appears to have really thick bolding, and the characters are spaced too close to each other.
Is this a bug, or am I missing a simple preference setting to fix this?
We have (ashamed to say!) tried opening the PDFs in another PDF reader application (I wont mention names!) and it displays just fine?
HELP!
Thanks
Alan

What I would try in your situation is Adobe Reader 9 with the corresponding font packs.
Uninstall the current reader and all font packs, then download and install the newest reader, with the font packs mentioned in this post http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b5b05b

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