Preview won't show some PDF fonts?

It's happened again: I have downloaded a PDF that opens with most of the text missing/blank in Preview. Opening the same document in Adobe Reader works fine. If I copy/paste some of that font from either the Preview or the Reader version of the text (I can highlight the blank text, seeing only a colored bar for the selection), and it pastes just fine into Word or Pages, which tell me that the text is Calibri.
So....Preview is somehow not able to access/display that font, but the font is clearly installed on my computer, accessible to Reader, Word, Pages, etc. I have resolved duplicate fonts in Font Book (and Calibri was not one of those that showed a conflict).
Any idea where the problem is? It's not a critical problem at this time, because there's a way around it, but this has happened several other times when I want to quickly download a document to check something during the course of a meeting and don't have time to get distracted with multiple PDF readers--and I prefer the interface on Preview and want to keep that as my default.

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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