Preview Issues

Whenever I save a PDF and open it in preview, it changes all the text into numbers and symbols. There are no other issues with my computer so I don't know what could have caused this. Any help?

Well, we need to narrow down were the problem is to fix it.
You can create a PDF from any App, even Text Edit, from the Print Dialog choose PDF>Save as PDF, then try that in Preview, but we need to find out what Font is being used, see if you can Drag copy some of those numbers & Symbols in Preview, Paste into a blank Text Edit Document, Select all & choode Fonts & colors, find which Font it is, we may just have a corrupt one on your Mac.
Open Font Book & Validate all Fonts & check for duplicates.

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  • RAM previewing issue

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