Preview App using odd fonts...

Hi,
When I view some PDFs (notably ones generated by websites - like a Skype Invoice) Preview App displays some of the text using a horible font that looks a bit like 'Impact' - Opening the same PDFs in Acrobat shows them as they should look - with a nice font like Arial or Helvetica or some such.
Any clues as to how to fix this?
See my example screenshots here:
http://www.itsnotallwork.com/dl/Picture 4.png (Preview)
http://www.itsnotallwork.com/dl/Picture 5.png (Acrobat)
Pdf is here:
http://www.itsnotallwork.com/dl/invoice.pdf
Thanks,
Guy

Not sure how to fix the issue - something to do with the font cache I would think - but your post needs a tiny bit of help. when posting a URL with a space in the name you either need to enclose the whole thing in brackets or use html tags (or if it is just a single one replace the space with %20, like so:
<http://www.itsnotallwork.com/dl/Picture 4.png>
<href a="://www.itsnotallwork.com/dl/Picture 4.png">http://www.itsnotallwork.com/dl/Picture 4.png</href>
http://www.itsnotallwork.com/dl/Picture%204.png

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