Text missing from PDF created in Excel

I have been creating a pdf file from an Excel spreadsheet for many weeks but last week the pdf file suddenly stopped displaying text in one corner of the screen:
But the missing text does display in Print Preview:
The font is consistent across the whole document and I cannot find any reason why this text will not display in that corner of the pdf.
Does anybody have any idea what is causing this and how to fix it?

The problem is actually caused by the following update for excel which was rolled out on Dec 14, 2011.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2596596
Here is some more discussion about it:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/nl/exceldev/thread/dec1c975-16b1-4b42-af44-a019740 bc910
The hotfix should be coming soon, but for now you can simply uninstall update KB2596596

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