Preview issues with some PDF

Hi,
i have occasionally problems using preview to display PDFs. For example this one: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/acl/W/W03/W03-1604.pdf
In preview the documents content is mostly destroyed, yet some figures survived. Of course, my first tough was that the pdf is broken or not created correctly. But other pdf readers can read it, it is just preview that for some PDFs does not work.
Is there a way to fix this? I actually do not want to replace preview with adobe reader. But this occasional borken pdfs are somehow annoying.

Install the latest updates using Software Update and I think you'll find the latest Font fix will resolve your problem.

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