Preview opens blank PDF

I have some PDF files that I created on my Windows PC before I switched to Mac that open up as blank pages in Preview.app. They where created using ScanSoft PDF Create!, using PDF Version 1.4 (Acrobat 5.x), the same one that's used by Apple in its PDF generation.
I am able to open these same documents in Adobe Acrobat Reader with no problems at all. This seems to be an incompatibility with 3rd party PDF generation utilities and Preview...
Isn't the purpose of PDF that it is compatible across all platforms? Can anyone suggest a solution?
Black MacBook, Intel iMac & Mini Dual Mac OS X (10.4.6)

I found this software that lets you setup a virtual printer to generate PDF's even from Adobe Acrobat Reader. Here's the link:
http://www.codepoetry.net/projects/cups-pdf-for-mosx
This is the only way I have found to be able to convert those PDF's to a version that Preview.app can open.

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