Preview screwing up fonts in pre-existing document

Preview is wreaking havoc with pdf documents by substituting fonts and deleting characters from the beginnings of occasional lines. This substitution takes place on saving a file after collecting together, or removing, unwanted pages.
The pdf files are all from other machines -- some created by me, most from various authors and publishers -- and all have embedded fonts that display without problems at first. Almost none of these fonts are installed where this problem occurs so this issue may differ from the other font problem threads.
On the other hand, maybe it has the same root cause because Acrobat Pro is now complaining about some files too, sometimes that it cannot extract the font, and replaces body and footnote characters with periods. Somehow the large characters survive with 'only' a typeface change.
Typically it will be the headers and a few bits of the footnotes affected. All in the same typeface, and often substituted into something like Univers bold but with the same spacing as the original font, making it not just unpresentable but also illegible.
Is there perhaps a save or font encoding preference that needs to be re-set?
These files opened and edited just fine not long ago, in both Preview and Acrobat Pro.

Exactly the same thing has just started happening to me, in the last two days. Except the files are not all from other machines.
I just spent 4 hours doing an archive and install on the system. Reinstalling what I thought were damaged fonts. Then removing and reinstalling Acrobat. And even removing Suitcase, which can do random odd things from time to time.
After all the detective work... it seems the problem is with Acrobat. But I don't have a solution for you. I'm tearing my hair out. Can't create invoices for clients!!

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