I recently encountered this same problem, i.e. black boxes covering various portions of my PDF documents when I viewed them within Acrobat X Pro (with Windows 7). They were fine when viewed in the Chrome browser. After searching for an answer, I finally just tried making random changes under "Edit Preferences" and discovered the culprit. More @Wikipedia
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