Preview won't open some PDF's

Recently on my MacBook Air running Mountain Lion, Preview will not open some PDF's. Other PDF's it opens just fine.
Those PDF's that will not open in Preview display the following Adobe message in the Preview window:
Is this a glitch?
I can "Control/Click" them and "Open With" Adobe Reader. The only common factor I can see among the PDF's that won't open in Preview is it seems these particular PDF's are usually quite lengthy and have a selectable Table of Contents associted with them.
Are some particular PDF formats permenently unavailable in Preview??
Thank you.

Thank you Allan and Barney.
Alas, though this did solve my question - it did not solve my problem.
I begrudgingly set-up the Adobe Reader account and downloaded the App.
Between: Apple's iCloud, Google Drive, DropBox, Amazon Cloud, and now Adobe Cloud, management of storage and documents is getting "complex" to say the least.
I was hoping to keep all these "collection-type PDF's" with all my other "normal-type PDF's" on Apple's iCloud through Preview.
Oh well, another account opened and another: account, username, password, and Application to manage.
Thank you both for your help and clarity on this issue.
Q.

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Alas, though this did solve my question - it did not solve my problem.
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Between: Apple's iCloud, Google Drive, DropBox, Amazon Cloud, and now Adobe Cloud, management of storage and documents is getting "complex" to say the least.
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