PDFs on macbook air

Hello,
So I've recently bought a macbook air and while trying opening pdfs a black page appears and the document itself doesn't.
I've tried downloading adobe reader (i know that macs can read pdfs w/o adobe reader) but stilll, it is NOT opening.
Any solutions suggested?
thank you in advance

Have you tried with other PDF files? For example this one: www.abax.se/content/download/137/862/file/example.pdf
This opens correctly for me.

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