Export PDF's with better quality, to be opened on PC

I like Pages, really, even if some functions are not intuitive.
But after months of using it and sending important PDFs i realized Pages PDF's look great on OSX Pages and Preview, but are useless if read in Acrobat (Mac) or with any reader on a PC. And I'm not talking images here, I'm talking distorted fonts. That looks very unprofessional when I have to deliver a paper.
I can't even show you on a screen cap because weirdly, when I take a screen cap with boft apps open at the same time the captured image show that both texts are distorted.
Exporting to word format gives another problem: it ***** up the whole structure and fonts, once again, if opened on a PC.
Why is all that and how to fix that? Unacceptable that PDF export can't be of decent quality...
Macbook Pro Retina 2014, everything updated etc, and i only use Time New Roman in Pages.
In advance, thanks.

Sorry I thought you were a native English speaker. Swedish/Danish/Norwegian?
Hard to determine anything from photographs of the screen with all the interference patterns.
You take a screensnap by holding down command shift 4 and dragging over the area you want. The screensnap is saved to the Desktop as a .png file.
On a PC you hit the Print Screen key on the keyboard.
I'll translate the "chinese"
You need to test the problem:
1. Create files with both text and images.
2. Label the files clearly as to what they are e.g. "Times Roman Images 300dpi Pages 5.5.2" etc
3. Also put that label in the document itself so you know what you are looking at and exactly what settings you used.
4. You appear to have used Times Roman. I suspect, but can't be sure, that what is happening is the Mac version is sharp and clear, but it is not being embedded or used by the PC which is substituting the Windows version.
5. Acrobat has a different and in my opinion inferior method of anti-aliasing fonts. Anti-aliasing is a method of smoothing fonts on screen by adding grey pixels in the curves and angles.
Sorry I can't do more but you have the files and I presume the recipients with the problems.
Peter

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