Comment 3 for bug 363697

I am having the same problem on Ubuntu lucid with documents downloaded from
http://jpr.sagepub.com/content/40/2/213.abstract

In the properties window, the following fonts are listed:
Helvetica
Helvetica-Oblique
Helvetica-Bold
Helvetica-BoldOblique
AGaramond-Semibold
AGaramond-Regular
AGaramond-Italic
Courier
AGaramond-SemiboldItalic

All Type 1 and Not embedded

The text is not readable without getting headaches because just as in the example from the bug description, the word-boundaries are not recognizable, the letters shift heavily to left and right seemingly at random...
Xpdf for example renders the same file on the same computer in a readable fashion.