Showing text in PDF in Preview

Hello,
I’m currently working with an application that at certain points generates pdf’s to show reports. It works fine on windows, but when I try to open them in the preview on the Mac OS X Mavericks, it shows an empty document. I can open it, select the lines and when I copy/paste to notepad I see the text, but the pdf file itself is empty. I figured it would be because of the fonts that are not recognized, so my question is: how are fonts differently used by preview as opposed to Windows and can someone here give me advice on generating the pdf in such a way that the text is visible on a mac without embedding all the fonts in the pdf. The fonts used are the standards, so Times New Roman, Arial, Arial Black and verdana for instance.
Thanks in advance!

Thanks for your suggestions.
The PDF works fine when opening in Acrobat Reader, both before and after watching it being empty in preview. When I’ve opened the PDF in preview it shows blank, but I can select the lines which hold the text it should have (and during selection it shows the lines, but not the text on those lines; could be compared to have a lot of spaces in the document). When I then copy the selection and go into ‘notes’ and paste there, the text that was supposed to show is pasted into it without trouble. In the inspector the file size of 53KB is given.

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