Can't preserve opacity and gradients when viewing file outside of illy.

Okay, so my image is basically a series of very intricate geometries, (made up of lines), superimposed over an image of the milky way.
Some of the lines have 85 opacity and some have radial gradients applied to them.
I'm wanting to email my file to someone who doesn't use illy, for them to view so I want the file to be able to be viewed in whatever program eg; acrobat.
So I saved it as a pdf and opened it to make sure it looked the same but to my dismay the image didn't preserve any opacity or gradients.
I'm sure it's something really simple but I'm a total illy noob so I have no idea what to do. It's quite important that I send this file asap and as it looks when in illy with opacity and gradients.
Would be very grateful if an adobe guru out there could help me asap!

When you saved the file as a PDF which you choose in the first dialog box that comes up on saving you will get another dialog box in which you choose the version and settings for the PDF. Try something like the following
then
and then
See if this works.

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lOkay, so my image is basically a series of very intricate geometries, (made up of lines), superimposed over an image of the milky way. Some of the lines have 85 opacity and some have radial gradients applied to them. I'm wanting to email my file to someone who doesn't use illy, for them to view so I want the file to be able to be viewed in whatever program eg; acrobat. So I saved it as a pdf and opened it to make sure it looked the same but to my dismay the image didn't preserve any opacity or gradients. I'm sure it's something really simple but I'm a total illy noob so I have no idea what to do. It's quite important that I send this file asap and as it looks when in illy with opacity and gradients. Would be very grateful if an adobe guru out there could help me asap!
Sorry about the link, only way i could cut and paste details from last discussion >>http://forums.adobe.com/message/3736183#3736183
previous post details everything that was suggested to fix the problem. I also mention that I was using a cracked ver of illy which was not the case, turns out it was a trial ver. Der. Clealy I'm not all that tech savvy.
If anyone has any ideas outside what was suggested in the last post I'd be very appreciative, Quite confused, and might I say a little bit frustrated, as to the nature of my problem

Hey thanks for the reply. I dont have indesign, but I think there should be a solution within illustrator. I mean why have opacity and gradients if you cant use them outside the program eg; for printing or pdf's. There must be a solution for this. I dont know much about indesign but I doubt that would work as the problem occurs when the image is viewed anywhere but illy, which means that its not saving or converting the transparencies. Tried to open in PS as a jpeg but that doesnt work either, no go as a pdf through acrobat and no luck as a bmp either. Thanks for your suggestion though.

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