Asian Fonts

Hi, I have the habit of creating webpage into PDF format for offline reading. But recently i found out that there is a problem when the webpage is in Asian language, in this case, Chinese. When i try to do this, the fonts of Chinese webpage will turned into blank square. But i can fix it by using the "Tools - Content - Edit text document" to change the font type manually. After changing the fonts will be recognizable, but it's all mess, i need to re-copy all the words again from the original webpage. The problem for this is i need to change it manually paragraph by paragraph, and takes long time just to finish one file. Few days later when i tried to create the file from the same site (same website, same font type, but different content) the "blank square fonts" problem does not occur, so i doubt it has something to do with the Asian language pack. But after few attempts on the same website the blank square reappear again. Hope to get solutions for this, Thank you.

Ok so I've had all the Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Arabic fonts disabled by Font Book for the past 10 days. Can I safely delete them now? What the the language packages in my Library/Receipts folder? Can I delete those too? I've already used Monolingual to remove all the foreign languages from my applications.
thanks,

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Thanks Chris, but why can I see the preview perfectly of these very same font when I work in Ai, but now in Ps they remain in Asian script.
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To check for any software problems lets try downloading and running the print and scan doctor located here:
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As my aim is to access character sets without the
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Never seen such things myself.
It seems a shame that Macs OSX can't grant you access
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http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/ltp.html
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was very satisfied with it..
and ended up giving it away as a gift...
now i have a 60gb color ipod...
still love it....
except for one thing: the asian font.
the b&w ipod from before had a nice asian font..
how could it get worse? couldn't they use the font from its predecessor? would it be possible to get this changed on the next update?? probably not, huh?
but this is bad...
this ugly asian font is chicken scratch..
it's literally making my shiny new ipod (dare i say it??) UGLY.
i'm not sure i want to look at the screen anymore. sniffle
some people may think i'm being anal or unreasonable..
but for $400 (not including tax) i think i should get nice clean font.

well, in my case, specifically the korean font..
could it be just my ipod?
it doesn't look "clean".. there's little gray "smudges"..
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i'm not sure how to describe it..
i've tried looking at from all angles,
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the b&w model didn't have this problem at all...

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