Safari cannot recognize Pdf files

Safari 6.0.1
OSX 10.8.2
I have seen many posts relative to Safari being able to open Pdfs, but my issue is different.
Safari can open the document, but it is not able to recognize the document as pdf and does not render it and just shows the raw data.
Here is the start of a pdf document openned with Safari:
"%PDF-1.1 %âãÏÓ 2 0 obj << /Length 608 /Filter /LZWDecode >> stream € Ã‘€È..."
Many posts recoment trashing /Library/Internet Plusind/AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin and /Library/Internet Pluins/AdobePDFViewer.plugin either in root or in user directories. I have tried but nothing good happens.

Carolyn Samit wrote:
Might be a corrupted or duplicate font.
Font problems and management in OS X
I have found some issues.
- Apple Symbols.ttf is duplicated.
- Other 35 very common fonts have problems. Some of them Verdana, Tahoma, Times New Roman, Georgia, Comic Sans MS, Arial in all its formats (black, narrow, etc...) and many other. All this fonts have two versions, one marked with an error and other with .ttf (true type font) extension.
I have saved the report created by Font Book and made it accesible via:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/14493442/fonts.report
Anyway I don't know how can I test if this is the problem and I don't feel secure to start removing fonts that can cause unestability to the system before I know that this is the source of the problem.

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