I have tried using multiple different fonts, system and non-system fonts. They have been a great help, but are completely baffled. They cannot recreate this error on their end, and say it doesn't have anything to do with the font manager. I am using Font Agent Pro and have been back-and-forth with their technical support. I am completely hampered here, and cannot create PDFs which I used every day, and cannot print anything out on paper from within Pages with these boxes. In most cases, they are included on a separate layer than the original text, and when removing within them Acrobat the document appears correct. Most of the boxes in question are being written to a different 'layer' and I've tried opening the PDFs in Adobe Acrobat Pro and I am able to remove the squares. It appears that the PDFs are being written or saved in an odd manner. But everywhere the normal paragraph break (enter) is used, these dang boxes show up. If I use a line break everywhere (shift+enter), the black boxes do not appear when printed. The black boxes show up wherever there is a paragraph break.
When using Pages, and opening previously created documents OR newly created documents, when I print them as PDFs or print them in my normal printer, black square boxes are showing up throughout every document. Wondering if anyone is having this issue after the good old El Capitan upgrade.