Preview and PDF: Text such as headlines are sometimes garbled

On occasion when I read PDF document some text gets garbled up. If I open the same find in Acrobat there are no issues.
I've tried to figure out how to report this but there seems to be nothing on Apple's support site regarding Preview at all.
It looks like the text is displaying one character on top of another.

Same problem here. Usually a restart helps. Sometimes one PDF doc will be garbled, another time not.
One thing I have noticed... how are you creating the PDF documents? I can see from the above post, one person created them in Windows. This might be the problem: the PDF engine used to generate the PDFs. I have been testing company invoices generated by a 3rd party FMP database, and now, just out of the blue, the pdf invoices render as garbled in Apple Mail and garbled when opened in Preview. Sure enough, when opened in Adobe, they render perfectly.
I don't know, however, if this is an issue with a non-Apple PDF generator, as I am not sure if my database system is using Apple's engine or something else...

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