Why do this PDF's fonts appear unreadable on my machine?

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Published on 2012-08-28T20:43:22Z Indexed on 2012/08/28 21:52 UTC
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I'm trying to read The Art of Assembly Language as per this answer on Stack Overflow. When I open it on my Ubuntu 12.04 box, it looks like this:

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I haven't tested it on another machine, but this can't be intentional. What is going on, and how can I fix it?

Edit: The above screenshot is from Chrome. It look like this in Evince:

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Still squished and hardly readable, but better. Is there anything I can do to fix it?

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